Gold discoveries at White Hills and Heathcote were reported to in 1852 when miners came to explore the many creeks in the region. Heritage Tour When the rushes dried up, White Hills Cemetery 1 Langley Hall 2 Germans planted vineyards in Axe Creek, Heathcote and East ELMORE later Elmore, developing an Saint Peter’s Anglican Church 4 5 4 7 award-winning wine industry. see inset map Wander the gracious boulevards of William Charles Vahland

White Hills and , and tour Northern Highway arrived in Sandhurst, as the wine areas of Greater . Bendigo was then known, from Hannover in 1854. A Driving time: 2.5 hours young man of 26, Vahland had Distance: 150 kilometres no luck finding gold but soon put his architectural training Saint Luke’s Anglican Church 3 into practice and opened his first business in Sandhurst. Miners rushed the Bendigo

Midland Highway Creek in 1851, progressing north along the valley through SHIRE OF CAMPASPE the seven White Hills.

Chinese and Cornish miners WHITE HILLS were the most successful 1 3 with the hard White Hills and see inset map many were buried nearby at the White Hills Cemetery. BENDIGO The imposing cemetery gates LONGLEA and fences were designed by 9 Vahland (c1881) 1 . AXEDALE

Longlea Lane Strathfieldsaye Road White Hills and Axedale both AXE CREEK McIvor Highway have towns with graceful curves laid out by government 10 surveyor Richard Larritt in the

Axe Creek Rd mid 1850s. For Bishop Langley, Vahland designed Saint Luke’s Anglican Church (1863) and ‘Langley Hall’ (1904) on the HEATHCOTE boulevards of White Hills 3 2 . 8

Saint John’s Anglican Church 8 1 Building 2 Privately owned 3 Demolished Athenaeum Hall and Library 5

Our Lady of Sacred Heart 7 Presbyterian Church 6

WHITE HILLS Saint Mary’s, the first Catholic High Victorian elements on stunning Vahland designs. church in Axedale, was built Saint John’s Anglican Church There is Our Lady of Sacred 10 on the sweep of a terrace (1868) reflect its new status 8 . Heart Church (1873) with its This building is privately owned. Please St Killian Street for fellow German Reverend bellcote crowning the church, only view from the public domain. Plumridge Street Midland Highway Raglan Street Dr Henry Backhaus (1962, Viticulture was successful the plainer but elegant Saint demolished c1901) 9 . Saint here and Germans planted Peter’s Anglican Church (1876) WHITE HILLS We hope you have enjoyed this tour. Dundas Street Mary’s was built of the fine vineyards around Axedale, and the Presbyterian Church 1 Explore other areas of Greater local bluestone quarried Axe Creek, Heathcote and (1898) 7 4 6 . Bendigo with these brochures: 3 at Ingham’s Hill over the later Elmore. Fellow Germans - Bendigo Views - East 2 Holdsworth Road . When the William Greiffenhagen and The social centre of the Elmore - Eaglehawk - West church became unsafe it was Carl and August Heine planted community was the Mechanics’ demolished and the bluestone at Axe Creek in 1860. The Institute and Vahland designed Bendigo Visitor Centre Open 7 days a week 9am-5pm Napier Street was reused in the new church Hercynia Vineyard had 300 a fine addition to it, the (except Christmas Day) designed by Keogh and Austen. acres of vines within a decade. Athenaeum Hall and Library P 1800 813 153 A homestead and winery with a (1885) 5 . ELMORE E [email protected] Axedale was a crossing point cellar (1870) were built in Axe W www.bendigotourism.com over the hazardous Campaspe Creek and part of the historic Phylloxera disease was found The used existing Michie Street River for miners on their way vineyard is still under plantation in 1893 and devastated the 6 research on William Charles Vahland Hervey Street to McIvor Creek, Heathcote in today as ‘Black Estate’ 10 . viticultural industry for many Jeffrey7 Street to compile this brochure but accepts no 5 1853. The rush attracted about decades. In the late 1960s responsibility for any inaccuracy, whether Carwell Street 40,000 people but it was the Vahland planted vines at wine growing and making in by inclusion or omission. 4 ELMORE rich farming soils that provided his property ‘Charterhouse’ Greater Bendigo underwent an alternative once gold was near Elmore and sold the a resurgence and today the Midland Highway exhausted. Heathcote began to wine internationally. Elmore region is known for its excellent Midland HighwaySwindale Street grow into aNorthern Highway town and the bold showcases a number of wines.

1 Building 2 Privately owned 3 Demolished