THE PRISON TREE
When the Mount Alexander
Goldfields began, it was a tent city with some rather wild characters.
Before a jail could be built some method of restraining prisoners had to be
found. The method used was to shackle them to a chain linked around
the tree shown in the photograph. They were unprotected in all weathers, and the
marks of the chain can still be seen on the trunk of the tree.
The tree is
preserved and protected as a reminder of those early days.
OUR HOME
An octagonal building( formally the Visitors Information Center) but now a comfortable home for our P.C.Users Group. It has been set up as a Computer Lab. and we offer instruction, to assist our members and other senior members of the community to enable them to become computer literate. To us it is affectionately known as The Octopus.
This genuine Anticlinal rock formation (very much in miniature. Approx
1.5m high) was found and preserver during road making in
Castlemaine.
Frequently visited by geology students, but so far no oil has
been struck.
Rolling farmland still surrounds Castlemaine
THE OLD COURTHOUSE
When the Mount Alexander Goldfields began, it was a tent city. But one of the first buildings to be built was a Court House, long before a prison was built. This Court House was built opposite the prison tree shown above.The Court House is preserved and protected as a reminder of those early days and is the home of the Castlemaine Historical Society