Women of Eureka by Laurel Johnson (Secondhand Book)

SECONDHAND BOOK – EX-LIBRARY

John Alexander and his wife Annie left their home in Montrose, Scotland 1853 for the goldfields of Ballarat. They were actively prospecting for alluvial gold during the time of the Eureka Stockade rebellion.

A stonemason by trade, John Alexander built one of the first miner’s masonry cottages on the goldfields (c1856). It is a tribute to his skill that Montrose stands today, not more than nine hundred metres from the site of the original stockade, as the only remaining cottage of its kind. It has been awarded the highest classification by the National Trust of Australia and is included on the National Heritage listing.

Montrose Cottage is a well-known point of interest for visitors to Ballarat. Its present owners – Laurel and Graeme Johnson – give guided tours of the cottage and adjoining museum at 111 Eureka Street, Ballarat.

Visitors to the cottage and museum will experience a rare insight into the life and often hard times of the men and women who forged the backbone of a new nation.

‘Women of Eureka’ is an integral part of an exhibition created to coincide with the 140th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade Rebellion. The unprecedented response to the ‘Women of Eureka’ has brought forward many descendants who have shared letters, photographs, diary entries, family folklore, and precious memories with us, so that we might cast a brighter lantern on the lives of the people who made our history golden.

Specifications:

Condition: Good – ex-library, contains library labels, clean pages.

Publisher: Historic Montrose Cottage and Eureka Museum

Year: 1997

Format: Paperback

Pages: 53pp

ISBN: 0646248677

$15.00

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