![]() Hill End continually shrank it had seen its glory, some of which was reported in newspapers. A town of hopefuls, but by late 1873 hope was looking sick so many people rushed away. The Beyer’s and Holtermann Specimen with its estimated 3000 ounces of gold immortalized the site of Hill End in history. on the 19th October, 1872 the world’s largest single mass of gold was unearthed at Hawkins Hill, Hill End. A number of world records captured the imagination of would be lucky strike gold diggers. In the Year 1872 Hill End Gold production peaked. At any one time 51 registered/licensed hotels were in operation in the year 1873. The innkeeper John Mahony McGrath announced his opening on the 30th July 1853.Ī large population needed services, some included eight churches, five schools, four brickworks, three newspapers and a one and a half-kilometre long unbroken line of commercial buildings. “The Hand and Heart Inn” on the Dirt Hole Road, Tambaroora. Many others were only in existence for a short period eg. Twenty eight hotels were in Hill End with Clarke Street containing 17 some were double storey, and therefore were very substantial buildings. We know there were 51 registered hotels in any one year in the area as records from the state archives confirm this. These were all towns that fed off Hill End on the one goldfield. In the North there was Tambaroora, Dirt Holes, Pep-a-day and Green Valley. In the south there was Chambers Creek, The Root Hog (on the Macquarie River) and The Lower Turon. The total area population for the Hill End goldfield, and those diggers who used its services, at its height is estimated at 30,000. In the year 1872, Hill End took over, big time, and Tambaroora faded into the past. On the other hand ditties reflected common rivalry. ![]() Competition between Hill End and Tambaroora was painful even though they shared for many years a combined name. Later the town name was Hill-End and finally settled to Hill End. A town petition was presented with the new name Hillend. One of them had to go!Ĭonsideration was given to the Governors name McLean. Until the 1860s when another Forbes became famous for gold. As the goldrush grew so did Bald Hills, which changed its name to Forbes. On the site of Hill End (initially a suburb of Tambaroora) sprung to life as Bald Hills with its own post office and postal stamp, identifying it clearly as a separate site. Within a few weeks of their discovery of the original field “Ophir” many other gold towns were established. He then initiated the idea with James and William Tom and John Lister. Hargraves (nothing can happen without an idea). (Earlier gold discoveries did occur and some were documented.) The idea of finding the Gold was provided by E. A boiling down works for cattle existed here, about 4 kilometres to the north of Hill End prior to goldrushes.Īustralia’s goldrushes started April, 1851. The first site had an Aboriginal name, Tambaroora. Stockman explorers grazing cattle were the first to open the area to European settlement. A modern comparison of this is the classification of Sydney as not only the residents that live in the 2000 postcode, inside the boundaries of tall buildings, but as all that feed off its central network of services and live around the nucleus. We deduced that the other settlements were not separate fields but existed like suburbs from the main site, this was further emphasised as all the main services were solely located in the “capital” – Hill End. You guessed it Hill End was the largest settlement and was located in the middle of this 20-kilometre long tract of gold producing land. We did this by plotting the quartz vein structure that made the goldfield. Our first step was to determine the land area that was Hill End. To address conflicting information we used our own experience with the bush, gold digging and Hill End to understand and interpret the information available, this culminated in the writing of four books and two documentaries on the subject of gold. ![]() To discover the truth we undertook extensive research approximately 20 years ago while we were setting up our tour business, which was originally, named “The Hillend Gold Shoppe”. There are many variations of Hill End’s history available.
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