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Image 32: Thomas Ham, Commissioner's Tent and Officers' Quarters, Forest Creek, Decr 1851

Image showing tents and people in a forest clearing.

Forest Creek was the location of a gold discovery in 1851. The following year, 1852, the place was surveyed and renamed Castlemaine.
Thomas Ham, Commissioner's Tent and Officers' Quarters, Forest Creek, Decr 1851, 1852. La Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria.

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