The badly vandalised information board tells us:
Day Trip to Maldon, Vic
January 3rd 2006
5
The Beehive Chimney
According to this Fairfax
Walkabout page:
The 30-metre Beehive
Chimney (1862) is located just off the road,
near the intersection of Main St and Church St.
The Beehive reef was discovered by Cornish miners who named it
after a swarm of bees which were,
at that moment, settled on a nearby post.
There is a picnic area adjacent.
Almost got
it... I wanted to line up that little cloud so it looked like smoke.
The badly vandalised information board tells us:
The
Beehive Mine began operations in 1860, and the chimney here was built in
1862.
It became one of Victoria's most productive mines, yielding around 210,000
ounces of gold.
During the 19th century, the Maldon skyline featured many such chimneys,
but this one is now the only one of its type in Victoria.
Follow the map to find many remains of the Beehive Mine's operations here.
On the Diggings Trail
This is one of 30 sites on the Mount Alexander Diggings Trail.
With the trail guidebook you can find your way to historic places around Maldon
and Castlemaine,
and discover stories from the great Mount Alexander Gold Rush of 1851.
Then follow the story through the years.
Start on the trail at the Visitor Information Centres in Maldon or Castlemaine.
One of my
by now world famous odd angles !
Just a wee bit too tall
Bill contemplates the chimney from the ruins.
Can you tell I was intrigued
with this chimney... ??!!
I was also
fascinated by the way this tree had tangled itself through the fence,
obviously over a period of time. The fence won in the end though...
the poor tree was quite dead.
