RED ROBIN GOLD MINE AND BATTERY

WEST KIEWA LOGGING TRACK and MACHINERY SPUR TRACK HOTHAM HEIGHTS, ALPINE SHIRE

Throughout the 1930s, in the most elevated part of the Australian Alps the country lying between Mt Hotham and Mt Feathertop known as the Kiewa fall a lone miner named William Spargo…

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

The 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…