Historical Images : Gold Rush Era - Victoria Australia
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- 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.
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In the 1850s gold discoveries in Victoria, in Beechworth, Castlemaine, Daylesford, Ballarat and Bendigo sparked gold rushes similar to the California Gold Rush. At its peak, some two tonnes of gold per week flowed into the Treasury Building in Melbourne.
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.
The rushes left Victorian architecture in towns in the Goldfields region such as Maldon, Beechworth, Clunes, Heathcote, Maryborough, Daylesford, Stawell, Beaufort, Creswick, St Arnaud, Dunolly, Inglewood, Wedderburn and Buninyong whose economy has differing emphases on home working, tourism, farming, modern industrial and retired sectors. With the exception of Ballarat and Bendigo, many of these towns were substantially larger than they are today. Most populations moved to other districts when gold played out in a given locality.[8] At the other end of the spectrum ghost towns, such as Walhalla, Mafeking and Steiglitz exist.
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Photographic images: State Library - Victoria
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Wow great photos my 2 great grandmother 6 of her babies died on the Castlemaine gold fields in the 1850s I can’t imagine that life back then must have been so hard
Fabulous photos...have family from Walhalla and further out at Hill End, Tangil and Russells Creek before they did Blue Rock lake.
They sure did dig up everything, but often wonder if a metal detector might pick things up they missed back in the day !
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There's something eerily charming about these wonderful images - the backbreaking work, gamble and living conditions many endured, just to find some gold. I wonder how many wasted their lives away to discover that they we the unlucky ones.
I don't think for many with limited education or not they had options ... It was gambling for its day !
We go to crown instead of places like this , so tru😢😮😅
A lot of those places look so different from the pics now, can still go around and find gold these days but with the bonus of an air conditioned car to get us there, chilled drinks to quench the thirst and a detector to tell us where to dig
Absolutely the technology has changed since the gold-panning days ... It's a great hobby if fossicking for gold and hopefully some of the photos and locations help in that !
Some awesome old photos in there, cheers.
They did it tough back then with no creature comforts !
Great photos. I'm at Cassilis Victoria and I'm sure there are more photos from up this way that you could include.
It's a cut-lunch and a compass away, but I do intend to seek Airbnb overnight stays in parts of Victoria that are more then a one day round trip for me and look at a few towns around that stay - At the moment I trying to stay within a 150km radius of Melbourne
Thanks for sharing
drag out those metal detectors and go exploring and camping !
Fantastic photos. Thanks for showing . But no Pics of Blackwood diggings.
It was whatever I could find in the State library that didn't have a copyright overlay - I did go to Blackwood and did a tourist video of the town - The town was great and lost in time with a great pub !
Such indiscriminate destruction of nature, one can only hope that nature has recovered now.
It was a date in time when society was ignorant
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Nature always recovered.
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That's what we want today, another gold rush!
I wonder if you went around to all those mining fields and locations with a metal detector, what one would find and has it already been done as even back in the day, they would have missing some!
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