Beechworth Golden Hills Festival

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Posted 2017-07-24 by Ian Gill ⇒ follow

Sat 12 Aug 2017 - Sun 13 Aug 2017

The Beechworth Historic Re-enactment Group is providing visitors to the town over the weekend of 12th & 13th August with the opportunity to witness a living history of life on Victoria's north-eastern goldfields in 1857.

About 150 enthusiasts, a total of thirteen re-enactment groups, will join forces to present the Beechworth and Golden Hills Festival for 2017, recreating Beechworth and districts prominent in the gold rush which, along with other major gold strikes throughout the State, made Victoria one of the richest places on earth in the 1850's.

Highlights of the event will include the creation of an authentic miners camp and mine sites, a Government Camp with uniformed troops of the 12th and 40th Regiments of Foot displaying their skill-at-arms drills, a Police station and Gold Commissioners Office issuing mining licenses to younger visitors.

There'll also be an authentic Chinese camp complete with its very own tea house and Joss Temple.

The festival will kick off on Saturday morning with 50 Redcoats and 100 miners parading through the street of the town.

Beechworth is renowned as one of Australia's best preserved and most beautiful historic towns and the Golden Hills Festival is a great opportunity for the whole family to not only witness this historic re-enactment but also to enjoy everything else the district has to offer as one of the State's premier tourism destinations.

Beechworth is 285 Kilometres north east of Melbourne, about a 3-hour drive via the Hume Freeway and Wangaratta.