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Daylesford, Victoria
Daylesford is a town in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, approximately 114 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. First established in 1852 as a gold mining town, Daylesford had a population of 2,781 at the 2021 census.
As one of Australia's few spa towns, Daylesford is a notable tourist destination. The town's numerous spas, restaurants and galleries are popular alongside the many gardens and country-house-conversion styled bed and breakfasts.
The broader area around the town, including Hepburn Springs to the north, is known for its natural spring mineral spas and is the location of over 80 per cent of Australia's effervescent mineral water reserve.
It is also the filming location for the third season of The Saddle Club, the twenty first season of The Block and scenes from the 2004 film Love's Brother.
Prior to European settlement, the area was occupied by the Dja Dja Wurrung people. Pastoralists occupied the Jim Crow and Upper Loddon districts following early white settlement in 1838, and Edward Stone Parker established a farming protectorate for the Dja Dja Wurrung at Franklinford in 1841. The beginning of the Victorian Gold Rush a decade later imposed further suffering on the Dja Dja Wurrung in the area, and by 1863, most of the protectorate's survivors had been moved to the Coranderrk reserve at Healesville.
In 1851, Irish immigrant John Egan and a party of searchers found alluvial gold in the bed of Wombat Creek, now covered by Lake Daylesford, initiating the local gold rush. Other finds quickly followed and a townsite was surveyed and founded in 1854, initially named Wombat but soon renamed Daylesford after the birthplace of Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of India.
Agricultural activity followed the gold rush, with many of the Chinese in the area also operating market gardens, and Italians in particular establishing vineyards. A post office opened on 1 February 1858, and a telegraph office opened in August 1859, the same year Daylesford became a municipality. By that time, its population had risen to approximately 7,000, with around 3,400 diggers involved in mining efforts, and the town's first council was formed.
Daylesford was declared a borough in the early 1860s. The alluvial gold was exhausted by then and a shift to quartz reef mining began. This continued on and off into the 1930s, though by the 1920s many miners had already departed for Western Australia.
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Daylesford, Victoria
Daylesford is a town in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, approximately 114 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. First established in 1852 as a gold mining town, Daylesford had a population of 2,781 at the 2021 census.
As one of Australia's few spa towns, Daylesford is a notable tourist destination. The town's numerous spas, restaurants and galleries are popular alongside the many gardens and country-house-conversion styled bed and breakfasts.
The broader area around the town, including Hepburn Springs to the north, is known for its natural spring mineral spas and is the location of over 80 per cent of Australia's effervescent mineral water reserve.
It is also the filming location for the third season of The Saddle Club, the twenty first season of The Block and scenes from the 2004 film Love's Brother.
Prior to European settlement, the area was occupied by the Dja Dja Wurrung people. Pastoralists occupied the Jim Crow and Upper Loddon districts following early white settlement in 1838, and Edward Stone Parker established a farming protectorate for the Dja Dja Wurrung at Franklinford in 1841. The beginning of the Victorian Gold Rush a decade later imposed further suffering on the Dja Dja Wurrung in the area, and by 1863, most of the protectorate's survivors had been moved to the Coranderrk reserve at Healesville.
In 1851, Irish immigrant John Egan and a party of searchers found alluvial gold in the bed of Wombat Creek, now covered by Lake Daylesford, initiating the local gold rush. Other finds quickly followed and a townsite was surveyed and founded in 1854, initially named Wombat but soon renamed Daylesford after the birthplace of Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of India.
Agricultural activity followed the gold rush, with many of the Chinese in the area also operating market gardens, and Italians in particular establishing vineyards. A post office opened on 1 February 1858, and a telegraph office opened in August 1859, the same year Daylesford became a municipality. By that time, its population had risen to approximately 7,000, with around 3,400 diggers involved in mining efforts, and the town's first council was formed.
Daylesford was declared a borough in the early 1860s. The alluvial gold was exhausted by then and a shift to quartz reef mining began. This continued on and off into the 1930s, though by the 1920s many miners had already departed for Western Australia.