The small town of Adelong is in the snowy mountains region of New South Wales, approximately 160 kilometres west of Canberra.
Originally settled in the 1840s, Adelong was barely a small village when gold was discovered along the local creek in the early 1850s bringing thousands of diggers to the town to make their fortune.
By 1859 a number of gold reefs were being mined including the old reef and the Great Victoria mine.
The town of Adelong had swelled to twenty thousand people of which approximately three thousand were Chinese. The lure of gold also attracted prospectors from all over the world with so many Cornish men moving to the area. A section of Adelong became known as Cornish town.
Through the 1860s and 1870s the town boomed with mines and batteries opening up along the valley. William Williams a prominent town pioneer and discoverer of gold on Mount Charcoal made a fortune with legend having that he brought a claim for forty 000 pounds and on the same day sold it on for 75 000 pounds.
Over 25 tons of gold was mined in Adelong from 1857 to the close of the last mines in 1914.
Today you can take a walk to the Adelong Falls where you can see relics of the old gold mines and get a sense of the large gold mining operations that once took place.
There you're also welcome to try your luck at gold panning along the Adelong creek and you can check out Doug Stone's metal detecting for gold in Australia book or his Gold Atlas of New South Wales for more information on where to prospect in the area.
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