St Arnaud Silo Art St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia
By The_Tritonz on 25-Aug-20. Waypoint GA17661

Title: "HOPE" 

The origin of St Arnaud was the discovery of gold at a sandy knoll later called Bakery Hill, St Arnaud north, in January 1855. The resulting goldfield was known as New Bendigo, and mining spread into several hills and gullies. In 1856 a town was surveyed about 6 km east of the goldfield. It was named St Arnaud, after a French military commander in the Crimean War. Because of the town’s distance from the goldfield the survey was cancelled and a township developed around the mining activity. The community readily adopted the proposed name, and sales of township lots occurred in 1858. 

St Arnaud did not boom for several years, although the search for reef gold began in late 1855. The settlement existed on alluvial gold and several reefs which were exploited for silver and gold, until the Lord Nelson Company (1883) developed a profitable operation which lasted until 1913.

At the given coordinates you will be standing in front of the St Arnuard Silos reflecting the towns mining history, which have been painted by the local artist Kyle Torney.

The theme of 1800's gold mining was chosen by the locals after Kyle submitted 4  designs to the newspaper. 

When logging this virtual, please add a photo of yourself or your GPSr with the large scale portraits in the background.

Congratulations to n0w0rries for his FTF, a long time coming :)