goldfields

Tumut. The Post Office. Built in 1879. The old building was given a new facade with arches in 1904. The architect was James Barnet.
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Williamstown. Old gold battery at the Barossa goldfields. In the little museum atttached to Bowden cottage.
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Maryborough. The 1888 built School of Arts building. For many years it was the town library. Architect was Grainger of Adelaide. It is now the Historical Society Museum.
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Gulgong. Henry Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss photographed Gulgong gold rush in 1872. 500 glass plate negatives are now the Holtermann Collection Museum. UNESCO heritage listed. Their portable dark room.
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Young. Millards flourmill built in the early 20th century
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Mt Isa mines. One of the big holes adjacent to the city.
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Dimboola. The Art Nouveau style bank was photographed in 1909 on its opening with all the town's residents. Recreated in 2009 with all the towns residents.
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Tumut. The convent building which was part of the Catholic School. Built 1886 with very decorative barge boards on the gables.
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Tumut. The Art Deco draper and mercer shop of Learmont built in 1927. The Learmont business was established here in 1889. .
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Goolwa. The distinctive half rounded roof of the railway superintendents residence completed in 1854.
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Maryborough. Brennan and Geraghty General Store. The store ledgers and receipts. This is as it was when the store closed in 1972. It opened for business in 1871.
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Goolwa Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1861. The transepts were added a few years later.
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Dunedin. Lanarch Castle 1872. The Lanarch family motto was a play on words. Without fear but their motto embelm was a ginger cat. Using French sans peur.
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Dimboola. Fantastic bronze door handles on the old Art Nouveau style bank which was erected in 1909.
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Tintinara. The old homestead and outbuildings. Built around 1865 when William Harding and George Bunn acquired the property.
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Tintinara. The western facade of the Lutheran Church built in 1975.
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Adelong. Old gold mining town. The Bank of NSW and manager's residence built in 1882. Bank opened in Adelong in 1859.
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Tintinara. The pretty gable ended Anglican Church built in 1959. First Anglican Church completed in 1914
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Lyon's Commercial Hotel
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Bendigo. The triangular shaped Family Hotel. Architect was William Vahland. 1872.
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Buffalo Shilo
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Gympie. The Mary Valley Rattler tourist train steaming towards Amamoor.
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Gympie. Old gold mining town. The old railway station. The train line reached Gympie from Maryborough in 1881 and from Brisbane in 1891.
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Milang. Photo from the Milang railway station museum of Landseers big warehouses during the river boat trading days of the 19th century in Milang. Now all these buildings are gone.
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Coonalpyn. Art mosaics outside the public toilet block near the Silo Art. The echidna.
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Mt Isa. Artificial lake near the city.
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Cook in geological camp
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Christchurch. The Tranzalpine train crossing the Southern Alps from Christchurch to Greymouth.
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Bendigo Town Hall. Wonderful 22 carat gold leaf decoration of the Town Hall for this city built on gold. Built between 1859 and 1886
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Gulgong. Old gold mining town. The Fiddlers Name antique store.
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Geelong. Number 170 Yarra Street. The Jewish Synagogue. Land purchased 1851. Synagogue built 1861 and closed in 1984.
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Gulgong. The old government primary school. Built in 1892.
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Kanmantoo. Sth Aust. The old Catholic Church. The section on the left built in 1858 and the section on the right built in 1865. Closed in 1956. Now a residence.
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Thames Goldfields Monument
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Forbes. The first Methodist services were held on these goldfields in 1863. The first Wesleyan Methodist church was built in 1877. This Gothic brick church was erected in 1906. Now Uniting.
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Balmoral Victoria. The colourful mural on the side of the Balmoral Community store.
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Edenhope. The 1966 built Anglican Church from the highway. The first Anglican church in Edenhope was built in 1916 and is now the Lutheran Church.
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Langhorne Creek. The Odd Fellows Hall. Built 1870. Used for public meetings until the Soldiers Memorial Hall opened in 1934. Also used for showing movies.
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Beechworth. This was a gold rush town from 1852. This superb granite wall was built behind the early Bank of New South Wales. Protection from bushrangers was needed in the 1850s.
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Bendigo. Ornate chimney on a cement rendered building behnid the Post Office which was built in 1887.
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Yukon railroad
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Rutherglen. An old gold mining town. The Victoria Hotel was established elsewhere in 1866. This Australian pub built in the 1880s with cast iron lace work and fancy roof line pediment
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Edenhope. The first Presbyterian church in the town was built in 1868. It was replaced by this new Presbyterian Church in 1931. It is now the Uniting Church.
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Maryborough. A replica of the Mary Ann steam train built at Walkers Foundryby Olds and Sons. The original train was built in 1873 to cut timber from the hinterlands of Cooloola Creek. Now operates as a tourist train in Queens Park.
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Welcome to Goldfield, Nevada
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Sevenhill. Clare Valley. Beautiful chapel stained glass window in Sevenhill Catholic Church. It was built from 1861 to 1866.
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Charters Towers. The Burdekin River which becomes a raging torrent in the summer and the Macrosson road bridge piers.
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Farkel Frump2015
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Naseby goldfields
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Gympie. Entrance to the former Bank of NSW erected 1891. Sold to the the shire of Widgee in 1940. Now the Gympie Regional Council offices.
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Bendigo. Corner of colourful historic buildings near the Chinese Golden Dragon Museum.
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Sofala New South Wales. Site of first gold rush in 1851. Lovely old cottages.
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Maryborough Queensland. The former Presbyterian Church now the Uniting Church.
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Bendigo. The Chinese garden and Chinese Temple complex near the Chinese Cultural Museum.
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Gympie. The first permanent courthouse constructed on the Gympie goldfields. It opened in 1876 and was replaced with a second courthouse in 1902. Now a Country Music Institute
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Gympie. The Mary Valley Rattler train in Gympie railway station.
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Geelong. The now closed former 12 Fenwick Street Baptiist Church. Built in 1911 next to the orginal Baptist church built around 1860.
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I did this while you were watching television
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Coonalpyn. The Coonalpyn state school built in 1927. The first state school opened in Coonalpyn in 1889 after the intercolonial railway from Adelaide to Melbourne passed through here.
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