History of Mount Beckwith (Beckworth)
FROM FRIENDS OF MOUNT BECKWORTH WEBSITE:
Koori History
Little is known of pre-European settlement in our area. Only a few known relics remain from the Dja Dja Wrung tribe which occupied an area of 15,600 square kilometres that includes Mount Beckworth. One source states that Mount Beckworth was known to aboriginal people as "Korepunbrlite Gudidji" which means "belonging to" and the area around Mount Beckworth and Clunes was known as "Gurabungalid". There were many tribal sub-groups in the district, including the Gul Gul Balug from the Mount Mitchell/Burnbank area.
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Naming Mount Beckworth
Major Mitchell passed through the area in 1836 and named "Mount Beckwith" for Thomas Sidney Beckwith who had served in Mitchell's 95th Regiment; he later became Lieutenant General Sir Sidney Beckwith.
Mount Beckwith, Mount Beckworth and discoveries of gold
Mount Beckwith, a granitic ridge, is about five miles to the West. The gold is found disseminated in several parallel quartz veins or dykes, which pass through this mass of trap, and protrude from it on the steep banks of the valley. There is no tract of auriferous alluvium. The gold is almost entirely derived from the quartz vein itself. Hence the works here would be more properly characterized as mining than digging.
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