Hargraves is a village in
Central West New South Wales, Australia. It is north west of the state capital of
Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...
and southwest of the town of
Mudgee
Mudgee () is a town in the Central West (New South Wales), Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council Local gov ...
, New South Wales, Australia. At the 2011
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
, Hargraves had a population of 338.
It lies within the traditional lands of the
Wiradjuri
The Wiradjuri people (; ) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales, united by common descent through kinship and shared traditions. They survived as skilled hunter-fisher-gatherers, in family groups or clans, a ...
people.
Initially known as Louisa Creek, it was renamed Hargraves after
Edward Hargraves
Edward Hammond Hargraves (7 October 1816 – 29 October 1891) was an Australian gold prospector who led an expedition in the Macquarie River region of New South Wales in 1851, and publicised the resulting finds, starting the New South Wales ...
. It owes its origins to gold mining, which occurred there from the early 1850s.
See also
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Australian gold rushes
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in History of Australia, Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the Colo ...
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New South Wales gold rush
New South Wales experienced the first gold rush in Australia, a period generally accepted to lie between 1851 and 1880. This period in the history of New South Wales resulted in a rapid growth in the population and significant boost to the ec ...
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Ophir, New South Wales
Ophir is the name of a locality in New South Wales, Australia, in Cabonne Shire.
History and discovery
Ophir is located near the Macquarie River northeast of the city of Orange. Ophir is the place where gold was first discovered in New South ...
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Hargraves House
References
External links
Towns in New South Wales
Towns in the Central West (New South Wales)
Central Tablelands
Mining towns in New South Wales
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