Eldorado, Victoria
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 The main street of Eldorado. A Soldiers Memorial bus shelter is in the foreground while the General store and McEvoy Tavern ("The smallest pub in Victoria") can seen to the left. |
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| Population: | 287[1] |
| Postcode: | 3746 |
| LGA: | Rural City of Wangaratta |
Eldorado, or El Dorado, is a small town in the north-east of Victoria, Australia. At the 2006 census, Eldorado had a population of 287.[1]
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[edit] History
Gold was found in the area during the 1850s, the source of the town's name (after the legend of El Dorado). Eldorado Post Office opened on 1 August 1861. [2]
The town's population declined sharply after the area ceased to yield gold. The remains of an old gold dredge can still be seen today. This is a large steel dredge which was designed and built by Thompson's Engineering for the Cocks Eldorado Gold Dredging Company in 1935-36. By the time it was decommissioned it had dredged 30 million cubic metres from the river flats of the Eldorado Plain. It has 110 digging buckets each of which was capable of digging and lifting 0.3 cubic metres of soil.
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aerial photo from south east
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Entering Eldorado
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Gold dredge
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A residential street
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Memorial bus shelter
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Gold dredge
[edit] References
- ^ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Eldorado (L) (Urban Centre/Locality)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=UCL216350&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 4 May 2010.
- ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=, retrieved 2008-04-11
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- www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/resources05/05_1355.pdf - Parks Victoria's visitors guide to Cock's gold dredge.
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