BRIGHT COURT HOUSE AND LOCKUP

1-3 PARK STREET BRIGHT, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

Bright Court House is a single storey brick building constructed as a court of petty sessions for the Buckland goldfields in 1861 to a design by the Public Works Department architect JJ…

MERRIANG HOMESTEAD

6 MERRIANG HOMESTEAD ROAD MERRIANG, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Merriang Run was first established prior to 1846 by David Johnson who sold the pastoral licence to John Johnston, an Irish immigrant, in that year. In 1853 Johnston secured freehold title…

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.275

119 SCHOOL ROAD WANDILIGONG, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

Primary School No. 275, Wandiligong including the 1877 school building and the 1881 additions. All other buildings, structures and hard landscaping are not of significance. History…

BUCKLAND RIVER HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING PADDOCK

OFF BUCKLAND ROAD BUCKLAND, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Buckland River Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Paddock consists of an area about 100 metres by 50 metres containing a small sluiced open cut, pebble dumps and a tail race. Water for sluicing…

ROSE THISTLE AND SHAMROCK QUARRY GOLD MINING PRECINCT

CEMETERY LANE HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Rose Thistle & Shamrock mine was the largest recorded gold-producer and had the deepest workings in the Upper Ovens gold field. The mine was worked almost constantly from 1860 until…

RED ROBIN GOLD MINE AND BATTERY

WEST KIEWA LOGGING TRACK AND MACHINERY SPUR TRACK HOTHAM HEIGHTS, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

Throughout the 1930s, in the most elevated part of the Australian Alps the country lying between Mt Hotham and Mt Feathertop known as the Kiewa fall a lone miner named William Spargo…

LYREBIRD GULLY HOP KILN

LYREBIRD GULLY ROAD HARRIETVILLE, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Lyrebird Gully Hop Kiln (or Oast House) is located in a flat, clear area near the western bank of the Ovens River (West branch). The hop kiln is an archaeological place with the bulk of…

BRIGHT CHINESE CAMP SITE

14-20 DELANY AVENUE BRIGHT, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Bright Chinese Camp including archaeological features, deposits and relics. History Summary Gold was discovered in the new Colony of Victoria in 1851 and by the end of 1854, some 200,000…

BUCKLAND RIVER CROSSING

BUCKLAND VALLEY ROAD BUCKLAND, ALPINE SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Buckland River Crossing being the river and surrounding landscape where the Buckland Valley Riot of 1857 culminated. How is it significant? The Buckland River Crossing is of historical…