Rushworth is a town in
Victoria,
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
. It is located north of
Melbourne
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and, at the
2021 Census, had a population of 1,411.
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History
Rushworth was established during the 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 capi ...
in 1853. It was named by poet and later local Goldfields Commissioner Richard Henry Horne in 1854. Its post office opened on 16 September 1857.water table
The water table is the upper surface of the phreatic zone or zone of saturation. The zone of saturation is where the pores and fractures of the ground are saturated with groundwater, which may be fresh, saline, or brackish, depending on the loc ...
and were closed during the gold rush.
After World War 2, a migration camp was set up approximately 8km outside of town in 1947.
Athletics
The town has an Australian rules football
Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...
team competing in the Kyabram & District Football League
The Kyabram District Football Netball League (KDL) is a minor Australian rules football league in Victoria (Australia), Victoria made up of 15 teams. The KDL is made up of smaller country town football clubs in the Goulburn Valley.
The majori ...
.
Gallery
File:Rushworth.JPG, Aerial Picture
File:Rushworth High Street 2010.JPG, Main Street
File:RushworthPresbyterianChurch.JPG, Presbyterian
Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Pr ...
Church
File:Rushworth Anglican Church 2010.JPG, Anglican Church
File:Rushworth Court House 2010.JPG, Court House
File:Rushworth Mechanics Institute 2010.JPG, Mechanics Institute
File:Rushworth Post Office 2010.JPG, Post Office
File:RushworthToilets.JPG, Public Toilet
File:RushworthWarMemorial.JPG, War Memorial
See also
* Whroo, Victoria
*Balaclava Mine
The Balaclava Mine was an open-cut mine in the Australian ghost town of Whroo, Victoria. It opened in October 1854, one year after gold was found at the nearby Rushworth. By 1881 the number of employed miners in the area had dropped to 150, a ...
References
Towns in Victoria (state)
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