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Mining ruins and relics throughout the Central Goldfields

Gold puddlers, cornish boilers, cyanide vats, mine shafts, mine tunnels, battery sites, and monuments commemorating significant gold discoveries can be found hidden away throughout the Box Ironbark fo...

Posted 27/01/2018 in Things to do

Captain Melville, the Bushranger of Melville Caves

Calling himself Captain Francis Melville and posing as a gentleman, he reached Victoria about October 1851 and by December had turned bushranger. He claimed leadership of the Mount Macedon gang that w...

Posted 08/09/2017 in People

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Many cemeteries within the Goldfields were established in the 1850's, when the discovery of gold attracted an enormous rush of people to the area. A walk through one of these historic cemeteries can be quite captivating and educational, as they are filled with headstones and monuments from over a hundred and fifty years ago. More Tips

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