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Gold Discovery cairn  
   

Gold Discovery cairn

The inscription reads: Robert Ottery and party found their first gold near this spot after tramping barefooted from Williamstown (a Melbourne suburb) on Feb 11th 1852. A resident of Chewton for 65 years.
Day 187 - Mt Tarrengower to Vaughan Springs (Via Castlemaine and Chewton)

September 30th 2015
After a pleasant camp at Mt Tarrengower, we were fresh and ready for more tours of the goldfields. First port of call though was the Castlemaine dentist (to assess a damaged tooth)! We celebrated surviving the dentist with morning tea (including something sweet of course) and then drove around Castlemaine checking out all of the lovely old buildings. We stopped at the Castlemaine Market building ( ... read more
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Australian Flag Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
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