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Castlemaine is a Victorian town which was certainly built on gold taken from the fabulously rich local surface fields. And it is a town loyal to the past through some magnificent and faithfully preserved old buildings such as the ornate Market Building (1862), which now houses the Castlemaine Visitor Centre, and the original gaol. Herons Reef Gold Diggings displays early methods of gold extraction and
an authentic digger’s hut dating back to 1867. The site also includes
the ruins of miners’ huts which remain virtually as they were when the
diggers abandoned them and the spent fields. |