Colour photograph of Tarilta, Victoria.tarilta

Colour photograph of a building in Portland. portland, heritage, building, bluestone, macs, hotel

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Colour photograph of Tarilta, Victoria.tarilta

Colour photo Tarilta, Victoria.tarilta

Colour photograph of a double storey blustone building at Portland, Victoria. portland, heritage, building, bluestone, shops

Colour photorgraph of an old, red pillar box in Portland. portland, heritage, building, bluestone, shops, pillar box, letter box

Tarilta is a rural locality and former gold-mining town 12 km south of Castlemaine, 4 km north-west of Guildford and 3 km north-east of Vaughan. The last gold mining activity took place around the 1880s. It was originally Kangaroo Flat, being located where the Kangaroo Creek enters the Loddon River. It was surveyed and named in 1864. Gold was discovered at Tarilta in 1853. The Tarilta School was opened in 1860 in a Wesleyan chapel, and closed i n1925. In 1864 a township was surveyed and named Tarilta, the word being derived from an Aboriginal expression thought to mean kangaroo. In 1865 Bailliere’s Victorian gazetteer described Tarilta as being an alluvial and quartz gold-mining town with three quartz-crushing mills, three horse-puddling machines and two hotels. The elevated nature of the land around Tarilta made it accessible only by horse and dray, or on horseback. Colour photograph of Tarilta in Central Victoria. tarilta, central victoria, landcape

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Colour photograph of a Portland Street scene. portland, heritage, building, shops, main street, streetscape, townscape

Colour photograph of Tarilta, Victoria.tarilta

Colour photograph of Tarilta, Victoria.tarilta

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Colour photograph of the coast at Portland.portland, heritage, building, shops, main street, streetscape, townscape

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Colour photograph of the Petrified Forest at Cape Bridgewatercape bridgewater, geology, ocean, coastal, landscape, seascape, petrified forest

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Colour photograph of wind turbines at Cape Bridgewater.cape bridgewater, geology, ocean, coastal, landscape, seascape, petrified forest, wind farm, wind turbine

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Timber entrance feature to Vaughan Mineral Springs Reserve.vaughan, vaughan springs, vaughan chinese cemetery, chinese, mineral water

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Colour photograph of the coastline at Cape Bridgewater, Victoria. cape bridgewater, geology, ocean, coastal, landscape, seascape, blowhole, volcanic rock

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