Garden Bouquet Workshop with Indigo Rose Farm

Join Cassie Douglas of Indigo Rose Farm for a garden bouquet workshop at the picturesque Lake View House in Chiltern. You will create your own stunning garden bouquet to take home, learn about harvesting and conditioning seasonal garden flowers and so much more. This is a beginners workshop, no previous experience required. This 2 hour…

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Mortimer’s Lodge

Take it easy at this unique and tranquil getaway, a historic cottage with modern touch, in Chiltern. Lovingly restored and modernised cottage, providing up to four adults a peaceful and relaxing stay. A short stroll from Chiltern village and its old-world, gold mining heritage, you can explore gifts and curios and enjoy food and refreshments.…

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Beechworth Gold

Beechworth Gold Gemstone and Gold Gallery is a family owned business, which started in 1998. Beechworth Gold is housed in the beautiful former ‘Bank of Victoria’ built in 1861. During the gold rush of the 1850s all the gold discovered was assayed in the vault within the building. As the former Bank of Victoria played…

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Dow’s Pharmacy

Built in 1859 in Chiltern and bought by Hilda and Roy Dow in 1930, the unique Dow’s Pharmacy stands as a fascinating time capsule complete with over 4,000 original items in its collection from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The pharmacy closed its doors in 1968 with much of its content still intact. It…

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Lake View House

Lake View House is the childhood home of Henry Handel Richardson, pseudonym of ‘The Getting of Wisdom’ author’s Ethel Florence Richardson, who immortalised her experiences in Chiltern in her popular ‘The Fortunes of Richard Mahony’ trilogy. This charming red-brick house is furnished in period style, recreating a romantic lakeside country villa residence in a prosperous…

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The Federal Standard Printing Works

Established in 1859, the Federal Standard Printing Works is one of the few substantially intact provincial newspaper printeries remaining from the gold mining era. The first proprietors were Felix Ashworth, George Boyer, and George H Mott. Within two years the Federal Standard had incorporated Rutherglen’s first newspaper, The Murray Gazette, Albury’s first newspaper, The Border…

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