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  • FORMER AVOCA COURT HOUSE

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    85 HIGH STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE

    The Avoca Court House is a small, single-storey brick structure built in 1858-59 in response to rapid and substantial population growth generated by the rush for alluvial gold in Avoca in…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1460

     
  • POWDER MAGAZINE

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    NAPIER STREET and CAMP STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE

    The Powder Magazine, Avoca, built in 1860, is part of a larger justice precinct designed by the Public Works Department and includes the court house (1859), police residence (1859) and…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1548

     
  • BEECHWORTH JUSTICE PRECINCT

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    FORD STREET WILLIAMS STREET HIGH STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

    Gold was discovered at Beechworth in 1852 and the township of Beechworth was proclaimed on 1 July 1853. On 23 August 1856 the Municipal District of Beechworth was proclaimed and the first…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1464

     
  • POWDER MAGAZINE

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    SKIDMORE ROAD BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

    The Powder Magazine at Beechworth, including the stone magazine built in 1859 and the surrounding walls built in 1860. History Summary The Powder Magazine at Beechworth was constructed in…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H0357

     
  • BENDIGO SCHOOL OF MINES (BENDIGO TAFE)

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    118-160 MCCRAE STREET BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

    The buildings (exteriors and interiors) and other features of the Bendigo School of Mines (Bendigo TAFE) constructed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century for educational…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1505

     
  • FORMER BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES

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    27 VIEW STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

    The View Street premises of the bank of New South Wales were erected in 1866-67. The building was designed by Leonard Terry, and the builders were Langridge and Whitney. Leonard Terry, one of…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H0403

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  • RESIDENCE

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    37, 39A and 45 FARNSWORTH STREET and 3 BROWN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

    A 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…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H0591

     
  • MAGENTA QUARTZ MINE

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    145 MAGENTA ROAD CHILTERN, INDIGO SHIRE

    Magenta Quartz Mine began as an open cut mine in 1860 on the Magenta gold fields, 1.6km northeast of Chiltern in north eastern Victoria. Following the discovery of gold in Victoria (1851),…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1873

     
  • ELDORADO DREDGE

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    20 ELDORADO-BYAWATHA ROAD ELDORADO, Wangaratta Rural City

    The dredge is situated south-west of the township of Eldorado, in theparish of Byawatha, 10 miles from Wangaratta in north-eastern Victoria.In mid 1935, the Thompson Engineering Company of…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H0386

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  • RUINS OF DUKE OF CORNWALL MINE

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    2 VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

    Built in 1865 the only alteration in the appearance of the structure has been through weathering and the lack of maintenance over a long period of time. It is considered that local mudstone,…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H0385

     
  • LIME KILN COMPLEX

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    HEARNE PARADE and LIMEBURNERS ROAD EAST GEELONG, Greater Geelong City

    The Lime Kiln Complex at Limeburners Point in Geelong consists of the visible ruined remains of five brick lime kilns built into the side of the escarpment, and the footings of former powder…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1288

     
  • HEATHCOTE POWDER MAGAZINE

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    FOREST DRIVE HEATHCOTE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

    The Act to Regulate the Importation, Carriage and Custody of Gunpowder was passed in 1857 in a period when increasing deep mining for gold engendered a requirement for safe storage of large…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1402

     
  • SPARGOS HUT

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    OFF GREAT ALPINE ROAD HOTHAM HEIGHTS, MOUNT HOTHAM ALPINE RESORT

    Spargos 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…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1609

     
  • WATER WHEEL AND MINE MACHINERY

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    WEONE MINE, WELLS BOUNDARY TRACK MURMUNGEE, WANGARATTA RURAL CITY

    Situated in a low forested glade, this ramshackle collection of structures is probably unique in Victoria. Although erected in fairly recent times, it demonstrates superbly the small gold…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H0356

     
  • HEATHERLIE (MT DIFFICULT) QUARRY

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    GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK, GRAMPIANS ROAD, BELLFIELD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

    In 1861 or 1862, Francis Walkins, stonemason of Stawell discovered an outcrop of freestone in the Mount Difficult range while on a shooting trip and realised that the stone was extremely…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1556

     
  • GELLIONDALE BRIQUETTE PLANT

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    COAL PIT ROAD and SOUTH GIPPSLAND HIGHWAY HEDLEY, Wellington Shire

    The Gelliondale Brown Coal and Oil Co. commenced operations in 1930 and under the direction and ownership of James T Knox started manufacturing briquettes in 1934. The company ceased the…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1058

     
  • ROSALIND PARK

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    PALL MALL and VIEW STREET and GAOL ROAD and PARK ROAD BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

    The area known as Rosalind Park (formerly Government Camp Precinct) was first mapped by Surveyor George Urquhart, and designated a Government Camp, in 1852 to serve the local goldfields. The…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1866

     
  • GABO ISLAND LIGHTSTATION

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    GABO ISLAND, Unincorporated

    The original decision to construct a lighthouse on Gabo Island flowed from discussions between Governors Gipps of New South Wales and Franklin of Van Diemen's Land in 1841 concerning the…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1843

     
  • GLENFINE HOMESTEAD PRECINCT

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    150 GLENFINE ROAD WERNETH, Golden Plains Shire

    Glenfine homestead is a substantial, Gothically styled two-storey rendered bluestone residence. Glenfine was designed in 1872 by the architect HR Caselli for pastoralist, William Thomas…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1206

     
  • HARD HILL MINING SITE

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    GARDEN GULLY ROAD and HARD HILL ROAD ARMSTRONG and GARDEN GULLY ROAD GREAT WESTERN, Ararat Rural City, Northern Grampians Shire

    The first gold was found at Hard Hill in January 1856 and it continued to be the site of alluvial mining until the 1870s. The area includes an almost intact example of an earthen water race…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1044

     
  • WATTLE GULLY GOLD MINE

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    FRYERS ROAD CHEWTON, Mount Alexander Shire

    Wattle Gully Mine holds a pivotal position in the history of the State's quartz mining industry. The rich strike at Wattle Gully mine in 1937 helped revive the State's gold mining industry…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1879

     
  • FRYERSTOWN METHODIST CHURCH HALL

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    9-11 HERON STREET FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

    The 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…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1423

     
  • ARCHBOLD GOLD TREATMENT WORKS

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    VINEYARD ROAD CHEWTON, Mount Alexander Shire

    The Archbold (Chewton) Gold Treatment Works was erected c.1884 by Jeremiah Archbold who operated an assay and metallurgical business specialising in the treatment of gold-bearing ore. The…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1351

     
  • FORMER GOLD WARDEN'S OFFICE

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    35 HARGRAVES STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

    Twenty-two gold wardens offices were built to service the administration of the 1855 and 1858 Gold Acts. The earlier offices were small, often prefabricated timber buildings of one or two…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1404

     
  • FORT GELLIBRAND

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    BATTERY ROAD WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY

    From the 1850s to the turn of the century a series of coastal defensive works were built in the Colony of Victoria in response to a perceived threat of attack from hostile warships. The…

    Victorian Heritage Register VHR H1811

     
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