- Title
- Garfield Company's water-wheel, Chewton, 1900's
- Date
- 1900s
- Place
- Australia - Victoria - Forest Creek
- Interpretive description
Forest Creek is near Creswick and Castlemaine, Victoria.
- External Url
- http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/virtualexhibition/Mines/mine13m.htm
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- Title
- Garfield Company's water-wheel, Chewton, 1900's
- Date
- 1900s
- Type
- catalogue record + digital image
- Control
- no.1(67)
- Source
Virtual exhibition, http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/virtualexhibition/index.htm; Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria. Details
- Rights
- Reproduction rights owned by the Department of Primary Industry.
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- Description
This gigantic wooden waterwheel used the flow of Forest Creek, near Castlemaine (Victoria) to crush gold-bearing rock. A Chinese employee is shown second from the right.
- Type
- Published photograph
- Form
- Published black and white photograph
- Control
- p.36
- Source
Cannon, Michael, Australia: A History of Photographs, Curry O'Neil Ross Pty Ltd, South Yarra, Melbourne, 1983. Details
Original source: Victorian Department of Minerals and Energy
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- Type
- Published photograph
- Form
- Full caption: 'The Gardfield Mine changed its name to the FOREST CREEK GOLD REEFS CRUSHING WORKS afte rti was sold in March 1898 to a group of English investors.
- Control
- p.210
- Source
Hocking, Geoff, Castlemaine From Camp to City: A Pictorial History of Forest Creek & the Mount Alexander Goldfields, 1835-1900, Five Mile Press Pty Ltd, Knoxfield, Victoria, 1994. Details
Original Silas Ellery collection
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Created: 29 May 2003, Last modified: 27 October 2005
