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Edward Hammond Hargraves (7 October 1816 – 29 October 1891) was a gold prospector who claimed to have found gold in Australia in 1851, starting an Australian gold rush. Early life Edward Hammond Hargraves was born on 7 October 1816 in Gosport, Hampshire , England, the son of Elizabeth (née Whitcombe) and John Edward Hargraves.
Edward Hargraves made the discovery of gold in Bathurst in 1851. Although gold had been found in Australia as early as 1823 by surveyor James McBrien, a gold rush began when Edward Hargraves widely publicised his discovery of gold near Bathurst, New South Wales, in February 1851. Further discoveries were made later that year in Victoria, where ...
The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves with others [3] claimed to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site called Ophir. [4] [5] Hargraves had been to the Californian goldfields and had learned new gold prospecting techniques such as panning and cradling. Hargraves was offered rewards by ...
Twenty-eight years after the Fish River discovery, a man named Edward Hargraves discovered a 'grain of gold' in a billabong near Bathurst in 1851. [8] Hargraves returned to New South Wales from the Californian goldfields where he was unsuccessful. Hargraves decided to begin searching for gold in the state of New South Wales.
However the Colonial Secretary, Edward Deas Thomson, saw a great future for the country when Edward Hargraves proved his theory that Australia was a vast storehouse of gold. Hargraves had been in the California gold rush and knew gold country, when he first saw it, round Bathurst.
7 April — Edward Hargraves proclaims the discovery of gold at Ophir, New South Wales.The gold was actually discovered by William Tom and John Lister.; 10 April – The NSW Association for Preventing the Renewal of Transportation sends a petition to Queen Victoria.
Bathurst became the first gold centre of Australia. Flecks of gold were first discovered in the Fish River in February 1823, but it was on 12 February 1851 in a Bathurst Hotel that Edward Hargraves announced the discovery of payable gold 26 miles (42km) north-west at the confluence of two creeks, a spot soon named Ophir.
Hargraves House, Noraville is a heritage-listed house at 3 Elizabeth Drive, Noraville in the Central Coast local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by Edward Hammond Hargraves and built from 1856 to 1859 by Mr Fletcher. It is also known as Hargraves House and Norahville.