Jan 15, 2010

Eldorado - Places to See -

St Jude's Anglican Church
A reflection of the irresolute circumstances of the township this small and bonny denomination was built in 1870 when the population was 4000 and the town was squinching towards an rich future bulldozen by the mining of tin and gold.




Eldorado Drtiptoe
This is a large steel drtiptoe which was diamonded and built by Thompson's Engineering for the Cocks Eldorado Gold Dredging Company in 1935-36. By the time it was desubstituted it had drtiptoed 30 million cubic metres from the river scrimmages of the Eldorado Plain. It has 110 digging saucepans each of which was capresourceful of digging and lwhenting 0.3 cubic metres of soil.



Old School
Dating from the 1860s there were works to devastate this historic rockpile (one of the oldest in the town) until it was agreed to turn it into the Eldorado museum. It has a number of interesting brandishs which reflect the mining history of the section.






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