Whroo Ghost Town and Balaclava Gold Mine. Victoria.

Whroo is an abandoned gold mining town in northern Victoria 7 km south of Rushworth and 10 km south-west of the Waranga Basin reservoir.
Two sailors - John Thomas Lewis and James Meek Nickinson discovered a gold nugget in the grass at Whroo in 1854, the same date as Russia’s Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War, hence the name. A gold mine was quickly opened and was very profitable for the first few decades, leading to the development of the town of Whroo. The mine operated until the 1870s but was worked on and off until it officially closed in the 1960s.
Balaclava Hill was a very rich field and was mined by open cut. The early rush brought thousands of miners to Whroo, but within 4 years the population had dwindled to about 450. The township was surveyed in 1856.
One of the gold miners, John Lewis, was a shareholder in the Balaclava mine, and his fellow shareholder, Archibald Menzies financed Melbourne’s Menzies Hotel (1867) from the mine’s profits.
The nearby Whroo cemetery includes some beautiful, dilapidated headstones, and is perhaps most haunting for its numerous unmarked graves. Indications are that about 400 residents were buried here, and of the graves with headstones, the epitaphs tell of a harsh life lived at Whroo.
A walk through Whroo cemetery and the abandoned mining relics is well worth the trip. This is a true ghost town.
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[@topdeckdog]

Signal Prospecting released an awesome gold map of Whroo last year. Such an amazing area. Cheers.

[@antonio_travels]

Thanks I'll have to check it out! 😀👍

[@spoonies38]

Great video and drone footage to enable us see how large the area is!
Love the bloopers at the end too 😂
😘 😘

[@antonio_travels]

Thanks, good old Spark still doing it's thing. ✈️

[@theadventuresofzoomandbettie]

there was a puddling machine in Wedderburn, where I grew up. they hold gold detector jamboree there yearly now, and talk about the gold history of that area, but as kids, it was basically like play equipment to us haha. looks like a great place! We'll have to get out there and check it out! Thanks for sharing!

[@antonio_travels]

Special memories for you.

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