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FOREST CREEK TOURIST GOLD MINE
DUKE STREET CASTLEMAINE AND HITCHCOCK STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1322The Forest Creek Tourist Gold Mine possesses a complete and functional hydraulic sluicing plant. The machinery, including a 200hp gas engine and gas-producing plant was installed in 1936. The…
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MAIN STREET MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1361The Maldon quartz reefing field, although relatively small compared to others in the State, was extraordinarily rich in gold. The hardness and heavy mineralisation of the rock containing the…
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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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SOUTH GERMAN ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1357The 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 containing the…
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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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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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FORMER MOUNT ALEXANDER SILK WORM FARM
JOSEPH YOUNG DRIVE HARCOURT NORTH, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1348In 1872 Mrs Bladen Neill and the Victorian Ladies Sericultural Company established a silk worm farm on land at Mount Alexander, obtained through a grant from the Minister of Lands. The farm…
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HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL HALL
DAVY STREET TARADALE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1350The Holy Trinity Anglican Church, a rendered brick building situated in Davy Street, Taradale, was constructed in 1859 and replaced an earlier, 1856, timber church which became used as the…
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80 MALDON-SHELBOURNE ROAD MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2263The Maldon Cemetery was reserved in 1861 and the 6.9 ha (16 acres) grant was gazetted in 1878. The first burials in the town of Maldon, established following the discovery of gold at the…
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CASTLEMAINE PUBLIC CEMETERY (CAMPBELL'S CREEK)
CEMETERY ROAD CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1776The first Castlemaine cemetery occupied a small area in the fledgling township that was soon straddled by Templeton Street. After a great deal of controversy a site for a new cemetery was…
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6 TEMPLETON STREET MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1677Brooks Store, (former Co-operative Store), Maldon, is a relatively intact building, initially constructed 1866, and extended 1868, by the Maldon Co-operative Store Trading Company. John…
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MUCKLEFIELD-YAPEEN ROAD MUCKLEFORD SOUTH, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1380STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: Common School No. 1124 was built in Muckleford South in 1871, one of the last of the Common schools built before the 1872 Education Act. The…
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109 HIGH STREET MALDON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1394STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: Maldon Primary School No 1254 was opened in 1873, operating at first at the premises of the previous church schools. A site for a new school was…
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CASTLEMAINE NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2051
274-276 BARKER STREET, CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1393STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: Castlemaine had established a diverse industrial base which helped maintain prosperity and population in the 1870s after the easily won gold had…
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8 MOSTYN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1392STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: The foundation stone for Christ Church, Castlemaine was laid on February 24th 1854 by Anglican Bishop Perry but it was not completed until 1858.…
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TARADALE PUBLIC PARK, METCALFE-TARADALE ROAD TARADALE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1389On 19th May 1863 celebrations were held at Taradale to commemorate the marriage of Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Victoria and Albert and future King Edward VII, to…
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PATTERSON MEMORIAL DRINKING FOUNTAIN
30 MOSTYN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1388STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE: The Patterson Memorial Drinking Fountain was built in 1897 to commemorate Sir James Patterson, Member of Parliament for Castlemaine from 1870 to…
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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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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 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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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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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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DEEP LEADS ELECTRIC COMMISSION POWER HOUSE
BARINGHUP ROAD CARISBROOK, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1689Deep Leads Electric Commission Power House was constructed for one of a succession of mining companies, all linked to a common ancestor, the Chalks No.3 Company. The original company had a…
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CUNNACKS VALONIA OAK PLANTATION
ELLIOT STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1422The Valonia Oak (Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis) is one of the principal sources of tannin and during the nineteenth century English firms were importing thousands of tons acorn cups…
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BARKERS CREEK, OFF GINGELL STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1400The Castlemaine Concrete Truss Foot Bridge was designed by Shire Engineer WT Sunderland and built in 1914. Sunderland was later to design a number of both public and private reinforced…