Historic Kiandra - A Guide to the History of the District

This book published in 1959 marks the centenary of the Kiandra Gold Rush in November 1859. After a long spell of diminishing activity following the hectic few years of the gold rush, the old Kiandra Goldfield was again invaded by thousands of workmen, most of them New Australians from many lands as before, many of them miners, but of a different kind. New Chum Hill has been explored and worked again, this time to provide sand for the concrete of Tumut 1 Power Station and Tantangara Dam. The old Kiandra Goldfield is now familiar to Australia as part of the Upper Tumut Region of the Snowy Mountains Scheme...