POLICE MEMORIAL

HIGH STREET AND HIGHETT STREET MANSFIELD, MANSFIELD SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

On Friday 25 October, 1878, four policemen, disguised as prospectors set out from Mansfield to catch the Kelly Gang. The four men, three of who were soon to die, were Sergeant Michael…

POLICE STABLES

5 CURIA STREET MANSFIELD, MANSFIELD SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The police stables at Mansfield were constructed by J. Hellier and Co. in 1889 to designs by the Public Works Department. Identical in detail to those constructed in Lilydale (1885) and…

HOWQUA UNITED GOLD TREATMENT WORKS

HOWQUA HILLS TRACK HOWQUA HILLS, MANSFIELD SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

The Howqua United Gold Treatment Works consists of the remains of pyritic roasting furnace with an intact brick chimney stack. Near the roasting furnace is a battery site which was powered…

LEICHARDT GOLD CRUSHING BATTERY

ABBOT CREEK TRACK WOODS POINT, MANSFIELD SHIRE

Victorian Heritage Register

A party of prospectors found a gold bearing reef near the junction of Wye's and Stander's creeks in 1886. A year later the party was building a large wooden-spoked water wheel and carting to…