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The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons. Hill End is a dynamic, living entity. The history of the village and its current interpretation and management are of particular significance to the present Hill End community, many of whom ...
Forest Reefs was a gold mining area with alluvial gold being found in the 1860s and 1870s. [3] There was also very significant deep lead gold mining in the area, [4] [5] although the material mined from the deep leads needed to be crushed to obtain the gold it contained. Only a few of the reefs in the area were gold-bearing. [6] [7] [8]
Gulgong Goldfield, New South Wales, 1872–1873, attributed to Henry Beaufoy Merlin. Gold was first officially discovered in Australia on 15 February 1823, by assistant surveyor James McBrien, at Fish River, between Rydal and Bathurst his field survey book "At E. (End of the survey line) 1 chain 50 links to river and marked a gum tree.
Between 1867 and 1869 over 1,100 kilograms (40,000 oz) of gold were produced each year on the Grenfell goldfields and were the richest gold fields in NSW during this time. Grenfell was a goldmining town first known as Emu Creek and renamed in honour of John Grenfell, Gold Commissioner at Forbes, who had been killed in 1866 when bushrangers ...
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the colonial government of New South Wales (Victoria did not become a separate colony until 1 July 1851) had suppressed the news out of the fear that it would reduce the workforce and ...
Reno is a rural locality in the Cootamundra–Gundagai Regional Council local government area of the Riverina region, of New South Wales, Australia. [1] There was once a gold mining village of the same name. [2] For many years, until at least 2016, the locality was known as Jones Creek. [3] [4] Its population at the 2021 census was 131. [5]
Some of the land was set to be developed into 18 homes. Now it’s part of a 40-acre project to preserve local salmon habitat.
In 1852 during the Australian Gold Rush, gold was discovered at Upper Adelong. Records around the time indicated a yield of 198 kg of precious metals. In 1855 Adelong was declared a gold field. The Adelong township, which was first established in 1836, came alive when in 1857 William Willams discovered a gold bearing reef ore on Charcoal Hill.