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17-716: The ChillOut Festival is held in Daylesford, Victoria , every year on the Victorian Labour Day long weekend in March. It commenced in 1997 and is now the largest LGBTQI festival in regional Australia, and also the largest festival of any kind in the Shire of Hepburn . This article about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ)-related festival or event is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Daylesford, Victoria Daylesford

34-492: A 16 km long "Lost Children's Walk" that visitors can hike. The Daylesford Primary School also has a prize, the Graham Dux Award, presented to annually since 1889, in their memory. By the 1860s, the alluvial gold was exhausted and a shift to quartz reef mining began. This continued on and off into the 1930s. In later years, Daylesford became associated as being a fashionable spa resort, but fell out of favour in

51-408: A borough in the early 1860s. On 30 June 1867, three boys from Connells Gully, near Table Hill (William Graham, 6, his brother Thomas, 4, and Alfred Burman, 5) wandered into the bush near Daylesford. Despite exhaustive searches, their skeletal remains were finally located (when a boot was found by a farmer's dog) on 13 September about 10 kilometres away. Today, there is a park, a memorial cairn, and

68-499: A party of searchers found alluvial gold in 1851 on ground now covered by Lake Daylesford initiating the local gold rush. Other finds quickly followed. With the finding of alluvial gold a town site was surveyed and founded in 1852. Between 1851, and when Daylesford was declared a municipality and formed its first Council in 1859. The population had risen to approximately 7000 Men and women of all nationalities came to this town of muddy-streets and numerous hotels. Initially called Wombat, it

85-530: Is a spa town located in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range , within the Shire of Hepburn , Victoria , Australia , approximately 114 kilometres north-west of Melbourne . First established in 1852 as a gold-mining town, today Daylesford has a population of 2,781 as of the 2021 census . As one of Australia’s few spa towns, Daylesford is a notable tourist destination. The town’s numerous spas, restaurants and galleries are popular alongside

102-611: Is served by a number of primary schools and one public secondary school, Daylesford Secondary College . The town's Secondary College was originally established as a mining school, in 1890. In 1961 the college was established as the sole provider of secondary education in the Shire of Hepburn and has just over 500 pupils. Daylesford Primary School, formerly known as Daylesford State School, is the oldest and longest-running provider of primary education in Daylesford. Other primary schools in

119-658: The Great Depression . The Daylesford Magistrates' Court closed on 1 January 1990. At 616 metres (2,021 ft) above sea level, it has a cooler, wetter climate than Melbourne . Summer (January–February) temperatures range from 10 to 37 °C (50 to 99 °F), while July temperatures are cold, ranging from about 1–2 °C (34–36 °F) to 9 °C (48 °F). Annual precipitation, occasionally falling as snow, averages about 880 mm (35 in) but has ranged from 445 mm (17.5 in) to over 1,350 mm (53 in) per year. With 65 mineral springs,

136-668: The Daylesford-Hepburn Springs region accounts for more than 80 per cent of Australia’s known mineral water springs. As a result, the region has a number of spa developments including Hepburn Bathhouse & Spa , Mineral Spa at Peppers Springs Retreat and Salus Spa, Lake House. The town is also known for hosting a number of annual events, including the ChillOut Festival held during the Victorian Labour Day long weekend in March each year,

153-407: The area include St. Michael's Primary School and Daylesford Dharma School. Daylesford Primary School is host to an annual book fair which first started in 2010 and has since begun operating as an annual book fair, where used and unwanted books are donated to raise funds that go towards improving children's literacy. The Midland Highway runs directly through the town linking it with Castlemaine in

170-544: The area was occupied by the Djadja Wurrung people. Pastoralists occupied the Jim Crow and Upper Loddon districts following white settlement in 1838. A farming protectorate was established at Franklinford, but was short-lived and by 1863 most of the survivors had been moved to Corranderk station at Healesville . In 1848, Irish immigrant John Egan took up land on the future town site then known as Wombat Flat. He and

187-635: The beer garden of the Royal Daylesford Hotel, resulting in the deaths of five people. The accident has been described as "devastating" by some locals of the small town. Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve In the 1864 its citizens met at the Savoia Hotel and petitioned the government to protect the mineral springs from mining - the water was rated above gold and the Hepburn Mineral Spring Reserve

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204-718: The largest LGBTQ festival in rural and regional Australia; the Harvest Week Festival; the Lavandula's Festivals; and the Hepburn Springs Swiss Italian Festival celebrating the town's Swiss-Italian heritage. The annual Daylesford Highland Gathering features pipes and drums , a street march, dancing, Scottish Clans , Scottish clubs, stores et. al. Major industries in the economy of Daylesford today are healthcare, accommodation and food, and retail trade respectively. The town

221-616: The line towards Carlsruhe. The town has an Australian Rules football team and a netball team competing in the Central Highlands Football Netball League . Daylesford is also home to the Daylesford and Hepburn United Soccer Club, also known as the Saints or the Sainters. The Saints have won four league titles in their 20-year history along with two cup finals. In November 2023, a car crashed into

238-453: The many gardens and country-house-conversion styled bed and breakfasts. The broader area around the town, including Hepburn Springs to the north, is known for its natural spring mineral spas and is the location of over 80 per cent of Australia's effervescent mineral water reserve. It is also the filming location for the third season of The Saddle Club , and scenes from the 2004 film Love's Brother . Prior to European settlement

255-517: The north and Ballarat in the south-west. The Western Freeway is the main route linking Daylesford to Melbourne , the State Capital of Victoria. The railway to the town closed in 1978. The railway layout at Daylesford station was unusual in that the lines from Creswick and Carlsruhe both entered the station from the same end. The Daylesford Spa Country Railway currently operates a Sunday tourist service to Musk and Bullarto along

272-645: Was created in 1865. Many of its residents came from ' spa ' areas in Italy, Germany and England and appreciated its value. A bathhouse was created in the 1890s which has been remodelled several times. After an A$ 13 million redevelopment, the Hepburn Bathhouse & Spa reopened in September 2008. [1] Several springs exist in the main reserve – Soda, Sulphur, Pavilion, Locarno and Wyuna. Golden Spring, Hendersons and Lithia Spring are located in

289-459: Was renamed Daylesford. Agricultural activity quickly followed the miners, and many Chinese miners quickly turned to market gardening. The early Europeans, particularly Italians, established vineyards. In 1859, around 3400 diggers were on the local diggings. The post office opened on 1 February 1858 and a telegraph office was opened in August 1859. Daylesford was declared a municipality in 1859 and

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