A picture showing carriages and men on horseback going up and down the road into the A view of the Araluen Valley God fields - Araluen valley (gold-mining area). On the left are two armed men on horseback (police)

Gold Mining Era

  • Alexander Waddell and Hicken - Discoverers of Araluen Goldfield

    A Gold Discovery

    Alexander Waddell writes on 27 November 1878 to the Editor of the Town and Country Journal to clarify the DISCOVERERS OF ARALUEN GOLDFIELD Sir,– Noticing a statement made in the […]

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  • Chinese miners and Australian gold rush - Harvest of Endurance scroll

    Chinese and the Araluen Goldfields

    Picture – ‘Harvest of Endurance’ scroll, National Museum of Australia.  50 metre scroll painted in 394 days The Harvest of Endurance was first displayed in December 1988 at the Museum […]

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  • A G. Lacy 1865 painting of Gold miners at work at Araluen, titled The St Vincent Araluen.

    Gold Mining in the Araluen Valley in the 1850s and 1860s

    Introduction to Gold Mining in the Araluen Valley in the 1850s and 60s Bell’s Creek and Upper Araluen Bell’s Creek Upper Araluen Middle Araluen Araluen Clear Hills Newtown Redbank Lower […]

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