I found this whilst doing some research and thought I would share it with everyone. ************************************************************************************** The Golden Point State School was opened on the former Old Post Office Hill in 1875 at a cost of £3,188. It was designed for 500 pupils but on opening day 920 were enrolled. The School established a fine reputation in the age before secondary schooling, providing night classes for young men seeking qualifications. The School closed in 1993 when it merged with Eureka St and Richards St to form Canadian Lead State School. In 2009 it re-opened as Golden Point Learning and Cultural Environment. The former Golden Point State School is the home for three users: University of the 3rd Age; the multicultural group; and Mount Clear College. It is now known as G PLACE and was formally opened on 15 October 2010. **************************************************************************************The following was written by William Gay who died 10th July 1926 in Ballarat. I arrived in Ballarat on the 13th Dec. 1851 with my father, two brothers, and two other men. The road we came along was where Skipton Street now is, then down the hill, where Grant Street is now, on the West side of the Gaol hill. We stopped about half down and started to build a Bush hut, to sleep in the first night, but a man by the name Nott, that ad a store, just above where we camped, came to us, and told my father to come and stay in the store with him, as he was alone, and would be glad of our company, as the next day he got the Blight, so bad, that his eyes were completely closed, or as we called it Bunged up, and could not attend to his business. so we had to attend to it for him, that was the only store on the West side of the Creek, the frame of the store consisted of sapplings, and was covered with hessing. There were two others store on the Golden Point Hill, one was known as Adams store and the other as Akhursts store. These two stores had weather board sides and ends, and was covered with canvas, and the Police camp was on the top of Golden Point hill in that block, now enclosed by Young St on the east, Peak St on the North, and Grant on the West & South, the first Cemetery that I can remember was where the Eastern Bowling Green is now and where Peak St crossed the North side of the Bowling Green. When we arrived on Ballarat, there were only 50 or 60 diggers on it, as it was thought that Golden Point was worked out, and the first rush was over. My father went into an abandoned clame and made about an oz a day 1 = 2.17.0 but soon after our arrival a party of diggers sunk a shaft in the flat, about 150 yards above where Grant Street Bridge is now. **************************************************************************************
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