- Title
- Piggoreet: A township built on gold
- Creator
- Hunt, Joan
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/70874
- Identifier
- vital:6676
- Identifier
- ISSN:1832-2522
- Abstract
- This paper is based on an historical investigation into a township whose existence relied totally on the gold-mining industry and focuses on the decade 1861–1871. As a society we need to know more about the nature of daily life during the deep-lead mining phase, and the domestic and working lives of families on rich deep-lead Victorian goldfields in a time of intense social change. Piggoreet was a township within the Springdallah goldfields about which the only published history is a thirty-two page booklet written in 1926. Yet it had high-yielding mines which provided employment for its families, numerous enough to have more than three hundred children enrolled in the school at the end of the 1860s. After establishing the background to Piggoreet becoming a township, this paper describes one decade during which the deep-lead gold-mining industry was at its peak. It draws on a database created from an extensive range of primary and secondary sources to reveal the functional, social and economic life of the community. The now-disappeared township can be reconstructed using the database as well as a range of other government, church and community resources as evidence. The database has enabled analysis and interpretation of the mass of information. Some idea of the physical structure of the township becomes possible, and the symbiotic relationship between the gold-mining industry and the families reliant on it is revealed. - See more at: http://prov.vic.gov.au/publications/provenance/provenance2013/piggoreet#sthash.TpdYUOmf.dpuf
- Relation
- Provenance Vol. 12, no. (2013), p. 1-12
- Rights
- Copyright Public Records Office of Victoria
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 2103 Historical Studies
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