Fryers Forest

Fryers Forest is a forest in Victoria, Australia.

History of the Area

The 1857 census collector described some of the mining settlements along Fryers Creek (where gold had been discovered in late 1851) generally as Fryers Forest, proclaimed as Fryerstown in 1860.^[1] At the time its official population was 800, but did not include several hundred male Chinese diggers.^[2]

References

^ Davine, Anna (27 May 2015). "Fryerstown, VIC". Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia. Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
^ Davine, Anna (27 May 2015). "Fryers Forest, VIC". Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia. Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.

External links

Fryer's Forest Ecovillage at Holmgren Design

37°09′26″S 144°15′02″E / 37.157238°S 144.25051°E / -37.157238; 144.25051

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[1] Davine, Anna (27 May 2015). "Fryerstown, VIC". Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia. Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.

[2] Davine, Anna (27 May 2015). "Fryers Forest, VIC". Electronic Encyclopedia of Gold in Australia. Archived from the original on 8 August 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.

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