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85 HIGH STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1460The Avoca Court House is a small, single-storey brick structure built in 1858-59 in response to rapid and substantial population growth generated by the rush for alluvial gold in Avoca in…
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NAPIER STREET AND CAMP STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
VHR H1548The Powder Magazine, Avoca, built in 1860, is part of a larger justice precinct designed by the Public Works Department and includes the court house (1859), police residence (1859) and…
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FORD STREET WILLIAMS STREET HIGH STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H1464Gold was discovered at Beechworth in 1852 and the township of Beechworth was proclaimed on 1 July 1853. On 23 August 1856 the Municipal District of Beechworth was proclaimed and the first…
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SKIDMORE ROAD BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H0357The Powder Magazine at Beechworth, including the stone magazine built in 1859 and the surrounding walls built in 1860. History Summary The Powder Magazine at Beechworth was constructed in…
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BENDIGO SCHOOL OF MINES (BENDIGO TAFE)
118-160 MCCRAE STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1505The buildings (exteriors and interiors) and other features of the Bendigo School of Mines (Bendigo TAFE) constructed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century for educational…
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FORMER BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES
27 VIEW STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H0403The View Street premises of the bank of New South Wales were erected in 1866-67. The building was designed by Leonard Terry, and the builders were Langridge and Whitney. Leonard Terry, one of…
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37, 39A AND 45 FARNSWORTH STREET AND 3 BROWN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0591A single-storey picturesque Elizabethan revival style house built in two stages between 1866 and 1869 by William Downe, architect and Castlemaine town Surveyor till 1872 on land he acquired…
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145 MAGENTA ROAD CHILTERN, INDIGO SHIRE
VHR H1873Magenta Quartz Mine began as an open cut mine in 1860 on the Magenta gold fields, 1.6km northeast of Chiltern in north eastern Victoria. Following the discovery of gold in Victoria (1851),…
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20 ELDORADO-BYAWATHA ROAD ELDORADO, WANGARATTA RURAL CITY
VHR H0386The dredge is situated south-west of the township of Eldorado, in theparish of Byawatha, 10 miles from Wangaratta in north-eastern Victoria.In mid 1935, the Thompson Engineering Company of…
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RUINS OF DUKE OF CORNWALL MINE
2 VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H0385Built in 1865 the only alteration in the appearance of the structure has been through weathering and the lack of maintenance over a long period of time. It is considered that local mudstone,…
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HEARNE PARADE AND LIMEBURNERS ROAD EAST GEELONG, GREATER GEELONG CITY
VHR H1288The Lime Kiln Complex at Limeburners Point in Geelong consists of the visible ruined remains of five brick lime kilns built into the side of the escarpment, and the footings of former powder…
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FOREST DRIVE HEATHCOTE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1402The Act to Regulate the Importation, Carriage and Custody of Gunpowder was passed in 1857 in a period when increasing deep mining for gold engendered a requirement for safe storage of large…
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OFF GREAT ALPINE ROAD HOTHAM HEIGHTS, MOUNT HOTHAM ALPINE RESORT
VHR H1609Spargos Hut was built in 1928-29 as a base for summer gold prospecting activities by William (Bill) Spargo, head of the Country Roads Board road gangs in charge of the reconstruction of the…
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WATER WHEEL AND MINE MACHINERY
WEONE MINE, WELLS BOUNDARY TRACK MURMUNGEE, WANGARATTA RURAL CITY
VHR H0356Situated in a low forested glade, this ramshackle collection of structures is probably unique in Victoria. Although erected in fairly recent times, it demonstrates superbly the small gold…
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HEATHERLIE (MT DIFFICULT) QUARRY
GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK, GRAMPIANS ROAD, BELLFIELD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H1556In 1861 or 1862, Francis Walkins, stonemason of Stawell discovered an outcrop of freestone in the Mount Difficult range while on a shooting trip and realised that the stone was extremely…
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100 VINCENT STREET DAYLESFORD, HEPBURN SHIRE
VHR H2434The Daylesford School of Mines comprises the Laboratory Building with Chimney and the Art Department Building dating from 1890, and the Technical School Addition of 1914. Both the…
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COAL PIT ROAD AND SOUTH GIPPSLAND HIGHWAY HEDLEY, WELLINGTON SHIRE
VHR H1058The Gelliondale Brown Coal and Oil Co. commenced operations in 1930 and under the direction and ownership of James T Knox started manufacturing briquettes in 1934. The company ceased the…
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PALL MALL AND VIEW STREET AND GAOL ROAD AND PARK ROAD BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
VHR H1866The area known as Rosalind Park (formerly Government Camp Precinct) was first mapped by Surveyor George Urquhart, and designated a Government Camp, in 1852 to serve the local goldfields. The…
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GABO ISLAND, UNINCORPORATED
VHR H1843The original decision to construct a lighthouse on Gabo Island flowed from discussions between Governors Gipps of New South Wales and Franklin of Van Diemen's Land in 1841 concerning the…
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150 GLENFINE ROAD WERNETH, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
VHR H1206Glenfine homestead is a substantial, Gothically styled two-storey rendered bluestone residence. Glenfine was designed in 1872 by the architect HR Caselli for pastoralist, William Thomas…
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GARDEN GULLY ROAD AND HARD HILL ROAD ARMSTRONG AND GARDEN GULLY ROAD GREAT WESTERN, ARARAT RURAL CITY, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
VHR H1044The first gold was found at Hard Hill in January 1856 and it continued to be the site of alluvial mining until the 1870s. The area includes an almost intact example of an earthen water race…
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FRYERS ROAD CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1879Wattle Gully Mine holds a pivotal position in the history of the State's quartz mining industry. The rich strike at Wattle Gully mine in 1937 helped revive the State's gold mining industry…
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FRYERSTOWN METHODIST CHURCH HALL
9-11 HERON STREET FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1423The Fryerstown Methodist Church Hall is a prefabricated timber building of a type which was used for Courthouses and Gold Warden's offices in the goldfields in the mid to late 1850s. The…
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VINEYARD ROAD CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1351The Archbold (Chewton) Gold Treatment Works was erected c.1884 by Jeremiah Archbold who operated an assay and metallurgical business specialising in the treatment of gold-bearing ore. The…
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35 HARGRAVES STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
VHR H1404Twenty-two gold wardens offices were built to service the administration of the 1855 and 1858 Gold Acts. The earlier offices were small, often prefabricated timber buildings of one or two…
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