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    Garfield Company's water-wheel, Chewton, 1900's, 1900s, courtesy of Knowledge Resource Centre, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria.

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.
  2. Published photograph
    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

  3. Published photograph
    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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