CHINAMAN'S FLAT ALLUVIAL WORKINGS
7 DIXONS TRACK BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
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CHINAMAN'S FLAT ALLUVIAL WORKINGS - History
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
A map of the Beechworth goldfield completed at the end of 1852 showed diggings near Red Hill. Historically, the area of the Beechworth goldfield known as Chinaman's Flat was on the lower Three-mile Creek, at Bowman's Forest. No historical references have been found to a Chinaman's Flat in the vicinity of Red Hill, other than that, during 1865, between 30 and 60 Chinese miners (and no Europeans) were working at a Chinaman's Flat which was grouped with Silver, Deep, and Hurdle creeks in the mining population list.
The name, Chinaman's Flat, suggests that Chinese miners predominated there at some date probably in the early to mid-1860s. In 1866, Chinaman's Flat (Bowman's) was named as a locality occupied solely by Chinese. At that time, Chinese miners were working with considerable success, in many parts of the Beechworth goldfield, on ground abandoned by Europeans as unremunerative.
CHINAMAN'S FLAT ALLUVIAL WORKINGS - Interpretation of Site
Heritage Inventory Interpretation:
Heritage Inventory Description
CHINAMAN'S FLAT ALLUVIAL WORKINGS - Heritage Inventory Description
The site has been extensively sluiced and is very overgrown. Visible features are two adits, a sluicing sump and a dam embankment.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Regional. The site has scientific significance because of its rarity.
Heritage Inventory Key Components: Adits - Upper (drainage) adit and lower (sluice) adit, running in an east-west direction through Red Hill Spur. Sluicing sump - On the east side of Red Hill Spur is a 20ft-square concrete sump (recently fenced). The sump is at least 20 ft deep and the level of the upper adit is just below the top of the sump. Embankment - An embankment, 75 m long x 2 m high embankment runs around the northern side of the sump.
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CHINAMAN'S FLAT ALLUVIAL WORKINGSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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SIX MILE CREEK ALLUVIAL WORKINGSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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