A Weatherboard Victorian Miner's Cottage - Morses Creek Road, Wandiligong

            Built in the Nineteenth Century, this little weatherboard cottage may be found in the small alpine town of Wandiligong.

Proudly it sits behind its wire fence and well established garden.  It features a corrugated iron roof and a verandah to help keep the cottage cool and shady during the warmer summer months.  You might notice that it has two gables, and this is because the original cottage would only have been a couple of rooms making up the front building.  However, in ensuing years the owners of the cottage became more prosperous, and were thus able to extend the cottage twice its original size.  It is not unusual to see little miner's cottages with two or three extensions added onto the back of the original cottage.  This once would have been the cottage home of one of the many miners that panned for gold during the Victorian Gold Rush.

Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne.  Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community.  At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel.  Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area.  The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.

Taken in: Australia / Victoria / Wandiligong (show map)

Taken on: May 1, 2021

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Camera: Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS, f/4.5, 1/125 sec, 14.3mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon DIGITAL IXUS 80 IS
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.008 sec (1/125)
Focal Length:	14.3mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Auto, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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