EUCALYPTUS DISTILLING PLANT & SHALLOW WORKINGS
NO GOLD HERE DAM TRACK AMHERST, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
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EUCALYPTUS DISTILLING PLANT & SHALLOW WORKINGS - History
Contextual History:History of Place:
Heritage Inventory History of Site:
1852: The first important rush to Daisy Hill started, following the discovery of gold in Blacksmith's Gully in December 1852. The locality was about a mile east of the later town, and was known as Cowley's Rush.Heritage Inventory Description
EUCALYPTUS DISTILLING PLANT & SHALLOW WORKINGS - Heritage Inventory Description
/nEucalyptus Distillery - four, 6-1/2ft diameter vats and water dam. The lower sections of the vats are brick, the upper portions are constructed of sections cast iron boilers. Some of the concrete condensing channel survives, the boiler setting and chimney stack have been demolished. Puddler - Mounds of alluvial wash near the southern end of the dam suggests the dam was a favoured puddling location.
Heritage Inventory Significance: Local - Integrity of the site so reduced as to have very little interpretive value
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EUCALYPTUS DISTILLING PLANT & SHALLOW WORKINGSVictorian Heritage Inventory
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UNION QUARTZ MINING COMPANYVictorian Heritage Inventory
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