Brandy Creek: How Beaconsfield Began
- ISBN-10
- 0987371312
- ISBN-13
- 9780987371317
- Category
- Beaconsfield (Tas.)
- Pages
- 492
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-04-15
- Publisher
- Bookpod
- Author
- Nigel Burch
Description
The Tasmania Reef was the richest gold discovery anywhere in Australia in the 1870s and 1880s, and Beaconsfield grew to become Tasmania’s third biggest town. In today’s money, some $3 Billion came out of Beaconsfield over the life of the Tasmania mine. This book is a first-hand account of the discovery of gold and how the town was established. The narrator is a composite of the writings of around a dozen miners who were there – and describes the mines, the people and the events of the early years, as Beaconsfield grew and changed from a tent city to become a proud, innovative and community-conscious urban society.
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