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Beechworth
Beechworth is a town located in the north-east of Victoria, Australia, famous for its major growth during the gold rush days of the mid-1850s. At the , Beechworth had a population of 3,290. Beechworth's many historical buildings are well preserved and the town has re-invented itself and evolved into a popular tourist destination and growing wine-producing centre. History Beechworth Parish and Township plans were prepared, named and certified by George D. Smythe after he had left the family estate near Liverpool in 1828, then again near Launceston, Tasmania, in 1838. Originally used for grazing by the settler David Reid, the area was also sometimes known as Mayday Hills until 1853. The Post Office opened on 1 May 1853 as Spring Creek and was renamed Beechworth on 1 January 1854. One Indigenous name for the area of unknown origin and language is Baarmutha. Gold Between 1852 and 1857, Beechworth was a gold-producing region and centre of government; however, its power, wealt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beechworth (2)
Beechworth is a town located in the north-east of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, famous for its major growth during the Victorian Gold Rush, gold rush days of the mid-1850s. At the , Beechworth had a population of 3,290. Beechworth's many historical buildings are well preserved and the town has re-invented itself and evolved into a popular tourist destination and growing wine-producing centre. History Beechworth Parish and Township plans were prepared, named and certified by George D. Smythe after he had left the family estate near Liverpool in 1828, then again near Launceston, Tasmania, in 1838. Originally used for grazing by the settler David Reid, the area was also sometimes known as Mayday Hills until 1853. The Post Office opened on 1 May 1853 as Spring Creek and was renamed Beechworth on 1 January 1854. One Indigenous name for the area of unknown origin and language is Baarmutha. Gold Between 1852 and 1857, Beechworth was a gold-producing region and cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiltern, Victoria
Chiltern is a town in Victoria, Australia, in the northeast of the state between Wangaratta and Wodonga, in the Shire of Indigo. At the 2021 census, Chiltern had a population of 1,580. It is the birthplace of Prime Minister John McEwen. The town is close to the Chiltern-Mount Pilot National Park. Chiltern was once on the main road between Melbourne and Sydney but is now bypassed by the Hume Freeway running one kilometre to the south. History The area around Chiltern is the traditional lands of the Dhudhuroa people. The nearby Yeddonba Aboriginal Cultural Site, in the Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park, includes artworks created by the original inhabitants of the Chiltern area, including one ochre painting thought to represent a Thylacine, an animal now extinct and which has been extinct on mainland Australia for thousands of years. The area of Chiltern was on the Wahgunyah cattle run and was known as Black Dog Creek. The township, named after the Chiltern Hills in England, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yackandandah
Yackandandah is a town in northeast Victoria, Australia. It is near the regional cities of Wodonga and Albury, and is close to the tourist town of Beechworth. At the , Yackandandah had a population of 2,008. History The indigenous people of the area prior to white colonisation were the Dhudhuroa people, in whose language the toponym ''Yackandandah'' is said to have meant “one boulder on top of another at the junction of two creeks”, namely the Yackandandah and Commissioner creeks' intersection.'Sir Isaac Isaacs — A Sesquicentenary Reflection,' Melbourne University Law Review 2006 pp.880-904 p.882 * Peter Denahy, Australian entertainer. Further reading *O'Brien, Antony. ''Shenanigans on the Ovens goldfields: The 1859 election'', Artillery Publishing, Hartwell, 2005. *Larsen, Wal. ''The Mayday Hills Railway'', Wal Larsen, Bright, 1976. References External links The Official Yackandandah Tourism (Indigo Shire) Web Site [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Gold Rush
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. Overview The Victorian Gold Discovery Committee wrote in 1854: With the exception of the more extensive fields of California, for a number of years the gold output from Victoria was greater than in any other country in the world. Victoria's greatest yield for one year was in 1856, when 3,053,744 troy ounces (94,982 kg) of gold were extracted from the diggings. From 1851 to 1896 the Victorian Mines Department reported that a total of 61,034,682 oz (1,898,391 kg) of gold was mined in Victoria. Gold was first discovered in Australia on 15 February 1823, by assistant surveyor James McBrien, at Fish River, between Ry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley, Victoria
Stanley is a small town approximately from Beechworth in Victoria, Australia, noted for its apple and nut farms. At the , Stanley had a population of 324. The town was formerly known as Snake Gully and Nine Mile Creek. Many parts of this rural community have the remains of gold diggings from the Victorian gold rush of the mid-1800s. Gold rush era The district has an important historic gold mining past and produced some colourful people during that heyday. Among them was John Scarlett (1824-?), a Scottish miner. Scarlett was involved in all things associated with writing to the newspapers, calling meetings and voicing his opinions. Originally a dry miner, he advocated rights for this type of operator, then on acquiring access to water he became an advocate for wet miners to the exclusion of the dry operators. He stood for mining board elections and then Victorian parliament In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Isaacs
Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, (6 August 1855 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge who served as the ninth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1931 to 1936. He had previously served on the High Court of Australia from 1906 to 1931, including as Chief Justice from 1930. Isaacs was born in Melbourne and grew up in Yackandandah and Beechworth (in country Victoria). He began working as a schoolteacher at the age of 15, and later moved to Melbourne to work as a clerk and studied law part-time at the University of Melbourne. Isaacs was admitted to the bar in 1880, and soon became one of Melbourne's best-known barristers. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1892, and subsequently served as Solicitor-General under James Patterson, and Attorney-General under George Turner and Alexander Peacock. Isaacs entered the new federal parliament at the 1901 election, representing the Protectionist Party. He became Attorney-Genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wangaratta, Victoria
Wangaratta ( ) is a city in the northeast of Victoria, Australia, from Melbourne along the Hume Highway. The city had a population of 29,808 per the 2021 Australian Census. The city is located at the junction of the Ovens and King rivers, which drain the northwestern slopes of the Victorian Alps. Wangaratta is the administrative centre and the most populous city in the Rural City of Wangaratta local government area. History The original inhabitants of the area were the ''Pallanganmiddang'', ''WayWurru'', ''Waveroo''. The first European explorers to pass through the Wangaratta area were Hume and Hovell (1824) who named the Oxley Plains immediately south of Wangaratta. Major Thomas Mitchell during his 1836 expedition made a favourable report of its potential as grazing pasture. The first squatter to arrive was Thomas Rattray in 1838 who built a hut (on the site of the Wangaratta RSL) founding a settlement known as "Ovens Crossing". The Post Office in the area opened on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Benambra
The electoral district of Benambra is one of the electoral districts of Victoria, Australia, for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of in north-eastern Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The largest settlement is the city of Wodonga, Victoria, Wodonga. Benambra also includes the towns of Baranduda, Victoria, Baranduda, Barnawartha, Victoria, Barnawartha, Beechworth, Victoria, Beechworth, Chiltern, Victoria, Chiltern, Corryong, Victoria, Corryong, Eskdale, Victoria, Eskdale, Kiewa, Victoria, Kiewa, Mitta Mitta, Victoria, Mitta Mitta, Mount Beauty, Victoria, Mount Beauty, Rutherglen, Victoria, Rutherglen, Tallangatta, Victoria, Tallangatta, Tangambalanga, Victoria, Tangambalanga, Tawonga, Victoria, Tawonga, Wahgunyah, Victoria, Wahgunyah, and Yackandandah, Victoria, Yackandandah. It lies in the Northern Victoria Region of the upper house, the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council. The district of Benambra was created by the ''Electoral Act Amendment A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wooragee, Victoria
Wooragee is a locality in north east Victoria, Australia. The locality is in the Shire of Indigo local government area, north east of the state capital, Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori .... At the , Wooragee had a population of 345. A small township exists in which is located a rural fire brigade, a public hall, public toilets, a small park, a tennis court and a state primary school. References External links Towns in Victoria (state) Shire of Indigo {{Hume-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert O'Hara Burke
Robert O'Hara Burke (6 May 1821c. 28 June 1861) was an Irish soldier and police officer who achieved fame as an Australian explorer. He was the leader of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of Victoria to the Gulf of Carpentaria. The expedition party was well equipped, but Burke was not experienced in bushcraft. A Commission of Inquiry held by the Government of Victoria to investigate the failure of the expedition was a censure of Burke's judgement. Early years Burke was born in St Clerans, near the village of Craughwell, County Galway, Ireland in May 1821. He was the second of three sons of James Hardiman Burke (1788 – January 1854), an officer in the British army 7th Royal Fusiliers, and Anne Louisa Burke ''née'' O'Hara (married 1817, d.1844). Robert O'Hara was one of seven children: * John Hardiman Burke (d. August 1863) * Robert O' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Cameron (Australian Politician)
Daniel Cameron (c.1819 – 3 January 1906) was a miner and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council and later, the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Cameron was born in Perthshire, Scotland and arrived in Melbourne in 1851 or 1852 and soon went to Beechworth, Victoria. There he mined for gold and became a gold buyer for the Bank of New South Wales. In 1855, Cameron decided to run for the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council for the seat of Ovens, but lacked the £2000 required to run. His friends raised the funds for him and on 15 November 1855, Cameron was elected as the first local member of the area. To celebrate, he rode into the nearby town of Beechworth on a horse from a nearby circus that had its horseshoes shod with gold. A sculpture of a golden horseshoe was erected in the town in 1964 to commemorate the event. He held the seat until the original Council was abolished in March 1856. Cameron was elected to the Legislative Assembl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Bogong
The Electoral district of Bogong was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, which existed between 1889 and 1904. It included the area around Beechworth, Victoria. Members for Bogong References See also * Parliaments of the Australian states and territories * List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly: * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1859–1861 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1 ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Bogong Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1889 establishments in Australia 1904 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
