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LAL LAL IRON MINE AND SMELTING WORKS
IRON MINE ROAD LAL LAL, MOORABOOL SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1759Victoria's only attempt at mining and smelting iron ore took place at Lal Lal in the latter stages of the nineteenth century. In the mid 1870s, the Lal Lal Iron Company installed mining…
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MOUNT TARRENGOWER TUNNELLING COMPANY GOLD MINE
ANZAC HILL ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1358The Maldon quartz reefing field, although relatively small compared to others in the State, was extraordinary rich in gold. The hardness and heavy mineralisation of the rock mined put the…
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MOUNT HEPBURN COMPANY GOLD TREATMENT WORKS
CASSILIS ROAD TONGIO, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1940The Mount Hepburn Treatment Works is located near the junction ofPower'sGully and Swifts Creek. It is the site of major miningoperations from1896 to 1907 and the elaborate plant and…
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MOUNT TARRENGOWER LOOK-OUT TOWER
MOUNT TARRENGOWER ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1407In May 1923 a public meeting was convened by the Maldon Shire to investigate ways to develop the natural resources of the district in order to once more bring the town into prominence as an…
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MOUNT MERRIMAC GOLD BATTERY SITE
LIGHTNING CREEK MITTA MITTA, TOWONG SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1304The Mount Merrimac Gold Battery Site consists of the remains of a collapsed 10-head stamp battery, and buried and partly buried piece of machinery. The battery's power plant, a Pelton wheel…
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FRYERSTOWN METHODIST CHURCH HALL
9-11 HERON STREET FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1423The Fryerstown Methodist Church Hall is a prefabricated timber building of a type which was used for Courthouses and Gold Warden's offices in the goldfields in the mid to late 1850s. The…
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114 COOPERS ROAD HARCOURT NORTH, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2127What is significant Blight's Quarry, opened in 1862 and located on the north-east lower slopes of Mt Alexander, consists of an eight metre high and 90 metres wide upper quarry face with…
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CASTLEMAINE DIGGINGS NATIONAL HERITAGE PARK
CASTLEMAINE AND CHEWTON AND BARKERS CREEK AND CAMPBELLS CREEK AND FRYERSTOWN AND IRISHTOWN AND VAUGHAN AND GLENLYON AND TARILTA AND GLENLUCE AND PORCUPINE RIDGE AND GOLDEN POINT AND GUILDFORD AND MOONLIGHT FLAT AND FARADAY AND YAPEEN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIR
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2047The Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park envelopes a goldfield which was the catalyst for the Victorian gold rush of the early 1850s. In that tumultuous decade Victorian gold…
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O'DELL'S TRACK BROOKVILLE, EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2411O’Dell’s Hut is a single room, portable hut located on Odells Track in Brookville, East Gippsland. It is of a modest size and simple form with timber stud, weatherboard clad walls and…
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GOLDEN POINT ROAD GOLDEN POINT, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2368History Summary In the first week of July 1851, Victoria separated from New South Wales and became a colony in its own right. In the same week, gold was discovered in the new colony.…
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37, 39A AND 45 FARNSWORTH STREET AND 3 BROWN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0591A single-storey picturesque Elizabethan revival style house built in two stages between 1866 and 1869 by William Downe, architect and Castlemaine town Surveyor till 1872 on land he acquired…
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RED HILL HYDRAULIC GOLD SLUICING SITE
BREAKNECK HILL TRACK IRISHTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1230The Red Hill Hydraulic Gold Sluicing Site consists of a large sluicing pit containing a network of pebble dumps and tail races. The slopes of the hill below the pit have been extensively…
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OFF GREAT ALPINE ROAD HOTHAM HEIGHTS, MOUNT HOTHAM ALPINE RESORT
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1609Spargos Hut was built in 1928-29 as a base for summer gold prospecting activities by William (Bill) Spargo, head of the Country Roads Board road gangs in charge of the reconstruction of the…
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MOUNT STREET CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1412Primary historical records on the cemetery in Cemetery Reef Gully are scant. Its origins lie with the great Mount Alexander alluvial goldrush of 1851-54. Like the other small cemeteries…
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LISLES AND MANTONS GULLIES QUARTZ GOLD MINES
MOUNT TARRENGOWER ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1354The story of quartz mining in Lisles and Mantons gullies revolves around the working of three parallel reefs: Lisles, Mantons, and Braithwaites (or the Mount), all worked extensively by small…
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CHAPEL STREET GOLDEN POINT, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1410Primary historical records for Deadmans Gully Cemetery are scant. Its origins lie in the great Mount Alexander alluvial goldrush of 1851-54. Like other small cemeteries linked to this rush,…
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GARFIELD WATERWHEEL QUARTZ GOLD MINING SITE
NORTH STREET CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1356Quartz reefs near the site were being worked as early as 1856. During the mid-1880s the reefs were being mined by the Garfield Company. In 1887, the company relocated their 23-head quartz…
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GREVILLE STREET VAUGHAN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1408Primary historical records on Vaughan Chinese Cemetery are scant. Its origins lie in the great Mount Alexander alluvial goldrush of 1852-54. The cemetery is situated on a small rocky hill…
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SPECIMEN GULLY FLAGSTONE QUARRY
162 SPECIMEN GULLY ROAD BARKERS CREEK, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1411The quarrying of stone, gravel and sand for building and construction purposes was widely carried out on all Victorian goldfields. Some localities become notable for a particular material,…
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1 COLLES ROAD MOONLIGHT FLAT, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1675The Cemetery's origins are linked to the Mount Alexander alluvial gold rush of 1851-54. The first interment took place in 1852 and the cemetery was used until 1857. In the intervening years,…
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LAKE GOLDSMITH STEAM PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION, 1234 CARNGHAM-LAKE GOLDSMITH ROAD LAKE GOLDSMITH, PYRENEES SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1918The Bucyrus Railroad Steam Shovel, manufactured in 1903 by The Bucyrus Co, South Milwaukee and located at Geelong Cement's Batesford quarry, Fyansford is a rail-mounted, fixed-platform,…
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SPRING GULLY QUARTZ GOLD MINES
VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1234The Spring Gully Quartz Gold Mines consists of six main quartz mines. All the mines have undisturbed mullock heaps, and four have mining machinery foundations. The main mine (the parent…
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SPRING GULLY GOLD PUDDLING SITE
SPRING GULLY FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1245The Spring Gully Gold Puddling Site consists of the remnants of one puddling machine complete with dumps of washed gravels, water dam and two house sites. The site comprise a good…
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COBBLERS GULLY GOLD PUDDLING SITE
JACOBS TRACK CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1249The Cobblers Gully Gold Puddling Site consists of the remnants of one puddling machine complete with an adjoining water dam. The site is located at the head of the gully. The gully's middle…
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ADAIR STREET EAST MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1264The Maldon State Battery consists of the remains of the former State Battery including buildings and machinery, the Alliance shaft and associated mining machinery foundations, several large…