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Encyclopedia > Ophir, New South Wales

Ophir is the name of a locality in New South Wales, Australia.


Ophir is located near the Macquarie River northeast of the city of Orange. Ophir is the place where gold was first discovered in New South Wales in 1851, leading to the Australian Gold Rush.


Ophir was named after the biblical reference, see Ophir.


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Victoria which is bounded on the east by the 144th meridian E. longitude, thence by the Loddon to the River Murray; on the north by the River Murray; on the west by South
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It was a period of severe commercial depression, and many of the colonists prepared to set out for the newly discovered goldfields of Ophir, in New South Wales.
Ophir - New South Wales - Australia - Travel - theage.com.au (1042 words)
Ophir (pronounced 'o-fa') is an uninhabited recreation reserve with picnic and camping facilities at the confluence of Summer Hill Creek and Lewis Ponds Creek, a tributary of the Macquarie River.
The Ophir find was the first PAYABLE gold strike but that must be credited to Lister and the Tom brothers.
The Belmore Reef was discovered in 1866 and reef mining was pursued into the 1890s to the south of the junction.
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