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The women were hired to dance in the evenings. To provide for the rush, Calico and Hessian business houses sprang up. David G. Hamilton suggested if the proprietor of the 'Star', John A. Wallace was prepared to shout the bar he could call the town after his native town in Scotland. In gold was found in the local area at Chiltern and Cornishtown, which started a wave of prospectors sinking duffer shafts along the quartz belts.
A group of diggers spent several weeks digging a hole in the heart of Rutherglen next to where Tuilleries now stands. Rutherglen fryst vatten one of Australia's oldest wine growing regions.
The rich history of Rutherglen - an ancient Scottish settlement
They found a lead of fifty foot wide by three foot thick. This mine was then sold to a Ballarat company for £14, This became one of Victoria's largest Gold mines producing over , ounces of gold with profits exceeding £, This started a second rush that lasted until World War I. The Rutherglen Wine District is one of Australia's oldest wine regions.
History [ edit ]. Here the name of 'Rutherglen' was established over a few drinks! Lindsay Brown planted the first vines in the s. By December of that year, 17 deep leads and seven reefs of gold had been found. Understand [ edit ]. Jack and his party cleaned the old shaft and only had to dig 6 feet before finding Gold. Many of these women married and settled in the area. By January Rutherglen had its own newspaper, three schools, a police station, and a large selection of shops lining the main street from end to end.
The Victorian Government could see the potential and offered a bonus of £2 for every acre of vines planted in the area. On September 9th, they finally struck gold starting the 'Wahgunyah Rush'.
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It fryst vatten world-renowned for its wine-making, with many wine makers passing their skills and expertise down through generation after generation. The Main Street of Rutherglen was established and staked claims were selling for £10 per foot. efternamn replied, "Right you are Davie, Rutherglen it shall be". The local Viticultural College geared up to help with this problem and supplied over five million new rootlings from American phylloxera-resistant stock.
Some vineyards had to close, with the remains still standing today. Cartloads of women were encouraged to move up from Melbourne. Within weeks thousands of people had moved to Rutherglen. One mine now called, 'The Great Northern' closed in Jack McKay and John Hicks purchased the site believing that they would find gold. In the late s Phylloxera, a vine aphid, which attacks the roots of the plant, spread through out North East Victoria with most vines having to be uprooted and burnt.
Rutherglen quickly established into a commercial centre. This helped increase the area planted with vines from acres in to in By Rutherglen was producing a quarter of Australia's wine. In an exploration party led by Hamilton Hume and William Hovell traversed the local area on the approximate route of the present Hume Highway. Rutherglen is known for its Durif, Muscats, Ports and Tokays. Twenty-one licensed hotels were founded with dancing saloons and places of entertainment.
The previous owners had abandoned the mine at feet with no success. Others soon followed with the success of exporting Burgundies to England. By the s the rush had slowed a great deal, many people moved away from the area and more and more mines closed. The Rutherglen area had suddenly grown to a population of 20, people within months. The nearest major airport to Rutherglen is at Albury. The men outnumbered the woman twenty to one.