HODGSON CREEK ALLUVIAL WORKINGS
232 VOIGHTS ROAD BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
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HODGSON CREEK ALLUVIAL WORKINGS - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
Just a couple of historical records of mining on Hodgson's Creek were found. An 1860 report referred to 'part of the lower Three-mile or Hodgson's Creek'. In 1868, a minor rush occurred to 'the Yellow Creek, below the Melbourne Road', apparently Hodgson's Creek. The creek had been tried 'a few years back', at which time it had not been considered payable; with lower labour and plant costs, it was thought that the creek might now pay. The prospectors' claim (a shaft sunk 30 ft on the lead) failed, but another paddock further down the creek gave better yields. After two years the prospectors abandoned their claim, and the mining registrar remarked, 'If a tail-race could be brought up to this ground, and it worked by sluicing, it would pay well, but it is too poor to pay for any other system of mining.'
As part of the locality known as the Three-mile, Hodgson's Creek would have been subject to sluicing activity from the mid-1850s, intensively reworked by parties of Chinese throughout the 1860s, and possibly included in the large scale sluicing operations of Pund & Co. (1880s-17) and the GSG Co. (1918-50).
HODGSON CREEK ALLUVIAL WORKINGS - Interpretation of Site
Heritage Inventory Interpretation:
Heritage Inventory Description
HODGSON CREEK ALLUVIAL WORKINGS - Heritage Inventory Description
/nThe Hodgson Creek alluvial workings bears the features of a sluiced landscape.
Heritage Inventory Significance: The site has scientific significance, as a range of visible, intact sites related to alluvial sluicing operations. Of regional significance.
Heritage Inventory Key Components: Tailrace - Cut through bedrock on the west side of the creek is a tailrace, approximately 100 m long, 3 ft wide and 5 ft deep in places. The creek currently runs through the tailrace. Slum ponds - On the east side of the creek, running upstream from the tailrace is a network of massive slum ponds. The one nearest the tailrace is approximately 100 m in diameter and about 4 m high. The intact ponds are presumably linked to hydraulic sluicing operations conducted in 3- and 6-mile creeks, etc. Alluvial workings - Downstream of the tail race (extending for about 750 m) is an extensive area of sluiced ground containing the remains of tailraces, water or head races, and small pebble dumps. Heritage Inventory Site Features:
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HODGSON CREEK ALLUVIAL WORKINGSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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