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Tourism Bendigo
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Help for people visiting Bendigo, Victoria |
| TourismBendigo.com is a unique online business directory providing helpful information and business links for planning a trip to Bendigo. Tourism Bendigo gives you click-easy access to Bendigo's best travel related business. |
| BENDIGO BUSINESS IN THE SPOTLIGHT |
Bendigo is a city that was built on gold during the famous goldrush period. Gold was found in Central Victoria around 1840 but was a well kept secret until the early 1850s. On June 19th 1871, Sandhurst was declared a city and Bendigo was officially known as Sandhurst. Most locals refused to recognise the new name and the popular name Bendigo was restored in 1891. |
| BENDIGO, VICTORIA | [ 36º45'S 144º17'E ] |
Bendigo Tourist Directory
Things to do in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
Bendigo was originally named after a local prize-fighter nick-named Bendigo, who took on his name from British boxer Abednego Thompson, well known at the time of the 1852 rush. |
This photograph (circa 1868) of the main street was taken before the fountain was placed in Charing Cross. The building on left burnt down and was replaced with Fountain Court. Although the City Family Hotel is still there today, the whole area has recently undergone extensive changes to become a four storey modern business complex, owned and operated by the Bendigo Bank. |
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| The Magazine Rack - (feel free to browse) |
License Tax Unpopular !
 15 December 1851: Over 10,000 diggers responded to this notice pinned to trees across the Mt Alexander goldfield: More...
| 26-03-2012 | Central Point |
Gold Discovered in Mt. Alexander
 On 8th September, 1851 the Argus published this piece;
Dear Sir,
I wish to publish these few lines in your valuable paper that the public may know that there is gold found in these ranges about four miles from Dr Barker's home station, and about a mile from the Melbourne road, at the Southernmost point of Mount Alexander" More...
| 26-03-2012 | Central Point |
How The Diggers Lived
 When the diggers arrived, they pitched tents wherever they could and settled down to the hard work of finding gold.
Very few diggers had their families with them. More...
| 26-03-2012 | Central Point |
Australian Goldrush Part I
 In the 1850's, the focus on Australia was all about gold and the boomtime rushes it created! More...
| 26-03-2012 | Central Point |
Australian Goldrush Part II
Hargraves was not believed, but he was given a horse and sent back west to show the new government mineral surveyor where the gold was. In the meantime, the brothers with a cradle had written to say they had found a richer deposit. More...
| 26-03-2012 | Central Point |
Australian Goldrush Part III
In 1851, by law, all minerals and treasure-trove found in Australia, whether on private property or on public property, belonged to the crown. More...
| 26-03-2012 | Central Point |
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