Keywords: Golden Square at the end of 1851.jpg en This remarkable sketch-map by shepherd William Sandbach tells the story of the birth of the Bendigo goldfield detailing who was there and where their claims and camp sites were Sandbach believed that fellow shepherd William Henry Johnson had been the first to find gold at Bendigo Inadvertently Sandbach is also revealing the Aboriginal management of the land showing the waterholes along the creek bed treeless flats and wooded hills 1890 http //www cv vic gov au/stories/mapping-great-change/13768/william-sandbach- E2 80 9Cthe-infancy-of-bendigo-golden-square-in-1851 E2 80 9D/ William Sandbach PD-Australia Uploaded with UploadWizard Old maps |