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HERONS REEF HISTORIC GOLD DIGGINGS
VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1323The Herons Reef Historic Gold Diggings takes in a tangle of gullies at the head of Golden Gully and possesses a comprehensive range of gold mining relics, habitation sites and blacksmith…
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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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MELBA AVENUE AND 4 MELBA AVENUE LILYDALE, YARRA RANGES SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2366Cave Hill Limestone Quarry including the quarry pit, structures and plant for processing limestone and the production of lime-based products dating to the 1880s (tunnel and battery of pot…
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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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OLD LEAD ROAD AND OLD LEAD ROAD DUNOLLY, LODDON SHIRE, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2402The Old Lead Diggings, Dunolly includes a dense aggregation of several thousand remnant mining shafts that resulted from the search for nuggety gold. The place contains other archaeological…
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BUCKLAND VALLEY ROAD BUCKLAND, ALPINE SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H2431The Buckland River Crossing being the river and surrounding landscape where the Buckland Valley Riot of 1857 culminated. How is it significant? The Buckland River Crossing is of historical…
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85 HIGH STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1460The 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…
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NAPIER STREET AND CAMP STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1548The 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…
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FORD STREET WILLIAMS STREET HIGH STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1464Gold 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…
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SKIDMORE ROAD BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0357The 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…
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FORMER BANK OF NEW SOUTH WALES
27 VIEW STREET BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0403The 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…
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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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145 MAGENTA ROAD CHILTERN, INDIGO SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1873Magenta 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),…
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RUINS OF DUKE OF CORNWALL MINE
2 VAUGHAN-CHEWTON ROAD FRYERSTOWN, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H0385Built 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,…
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FOREST DRIVE HEATHCOTE, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1402The 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…
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HEATHERLIE (MT DIFFICULT) QUARRY
GRAMPIANS NATIONAL PARK, GRAMPIANS ROAD, BELLFIELD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1556In 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…
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PALL MALL AND VIEW STREET AND GAOL ROAD AND PARK ROAD BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1866The 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…
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GABO ISLAND, UNINCORPORATED
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1843The 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…
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150 GLENFINE ROAD WERNETH, GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1206Glenfine 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…
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GARDEN GULLY ROAD AND HARD HILL ROAD ARMSTRONG AND GARDEN GULLY ROAD GREAT WESTERN, ARARAT RURAL CITY, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1044The 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…
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FRYERS ROAD CHEWTON, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1879Wattle 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…
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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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35 HARGRAVES STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1404Twenty-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…
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BATTERY ROAD WILLIAMSTOWN, HOBSONS BAY CITY
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1811From 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…
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NUMBER ONE LEAD GOLD MINING PRECINCT
LEVERS LANE PERCYDALE, PYRENEES SHIRE
Victorian Heritage Register
VHR H1238The Number One Lead Gold Mining Precinct is an excellent and unusual example of shallow sinkings for alluvial gold. The site consists of the relics of mines in open country fronting Number…