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Aerial panorama of Sovereign Hill The gold diggings. Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.Sovereign Hill depicts Ballarat's first ten years after the discovery of gold there in 1851 and has become a nationally acclaimed tourist attraction. [1]
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 ...
Prospector Charles Hall and others found alluvial gold in the eastern Kimberly region in 1885. The find created the first gold rush in Western Australia. In terms of gold yield, the rush was not particularly successful, but was the first significant find in the northern and western parts of Australia. It was nearly 40 years after the Victorian ...
The Victorian gold rush was a period in the history of Victoria, Australia, approximately between 1851 and the late 1860s. It led to a period of extreme prosperity for the Australian colony and an influx of population growth and financial capital for Melbourne , which was dubbed " Marvellous Melbourne " as a result of the procurement of wealth.
History: Museum of Melbourne history from the 1830s, Portable Iron Houses: Historic house: website, operated by the National Trust of Australia, prefabricated iron buildings from the gold rush era RAAF Museum: Aviation: Military aircraft, official museum of the Royal Australian Air Force: Salvation Army Heritage Centre: History, cinema
It was designed to accommodate the Treasury Department, various government officials' offices including the Governor In Council, and basement vaults intended to house gold from the Victorian gold rush. It now houses a range of functions, including a museum of Melbourne history, known as Old Treasury Building Museum.
The Gold Rush began in earnest in 1849, which led to its eager participants being called "49ers," and within two years of James Marshall's discovery at Sutter's Mill, 90,000 people flocked to ...
The town was the largest producer of Eucalyptus Oil during the 1900s and is still home to two operating distilleries and the only Eucalyptus Distillery Museum in the country. Heritage Listed Distillery and Museum Site. Inglewood was an important gold mining centre during the Victorian Gold Rush of the 1850s and 1860s.