Beechworth is a gorgeous historical town in a well preserved state, and the area struck fame in the early 1850s as a rich goldfield.
Today Beechworth is a brilliant tourist destination, and the area is still popular for gold prospectors to this day.
Beechworth gold maps
- 1871, geological sketch map of the Parish of Beechworth, Mining Dept. Includes Beechworth, Reedy Creek, Woolshed Falls, Chinaman’s Flat. Shows quartz reefs, gold, dykes, diamonds, eurite, breccia, oxide of tin, granite, gneiss, silurian, conglomerate, older pliocene, newer pliocene, recent.