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(Vic goldfields history) Stoney Creek School/Australian Map
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<blockquote data-quote="loamer" data-source="post: 27774" data-attributes="member: 981"><p>Aussie - did you realise you were retracing an historic rush? On the Sunday following the Lamplough discovery (26 - 27/11/1859) there were 500 diggers on the field. Come the 28/11/1959 there were estimated to be 3,000. They had come during the night from Talbot, Kangaroo and <strong>Amphitheatre</strong>!! There you go - you did the same! For your info, I did a bit of a quick look about possible relic sites - can't pin any down but there was certainly a post office - in 1860 the post office dealt with 91,296 letters and 21,203 newspapers. As for nuggets, there is a record that a 20 oz nugget was sold to the National Bank Lamplough in June 1860. So, there must have been some reasonable sites in there somewhere. I know the Homebush (Four Mile flat) goldfield is due north and there is the Avoca Lead School 813 (1865 - 1893) recorded just on the southern side of the Pyrenees Highway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="loamer, post: 27774, member: 981"] Aussie - did you realise you were retracing an historic rush? On the Sunday following the Lamplough discovery (26 - 27/11/1859) there were 500 diggers on the field. Come the 28/11/1959 there were estimated to be 3,000. They had come during the night from Talbot, Kangaroo and [b]Amphitheatre[/b]!! There you go - you did the same! For your info, I did a bit of a quick look about possible relic sites - can't pin any down but there was certainly a post office - in 1860 the post office dealt with 91,296 letters and 21,203 newspapers. As for nuggets, there is a record that a 20 oz nugget was sold to the National Bank Lamplough in June 1860. So, there must have been some reasonable sites in there somewhere. I know the Homebush (Four Mile flat) goldfield is due north and there is the Avoca Lead School 813 (1865 - 1893) recorded just on the southern side of the Pyrenees Highway. [/QUOTE]
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