Beechworth, the secret of North East Victoria. It is a very picturesque gold-mining town, and its historic and cultural precinct is a collection of nationally significant buildings that tell the story of how early Australia grew and prospered. You can stand in the dock and cell where Ned Kelly stood during his committal hearing at the Beechworth Courthouse, also the oldest regional museum in Victoria - Burke Museum, send a telegram anywhere in Australia from the Beechworth Telegraph Station for $2. The building mostly in the main street are Australia's best preserved living collection of how early Australia grew up and have been registered by Heritage Vic and the National Trust. Most of them were undergoing painting and restoration. The buildings were all constructed in the 1850's from local honey coloured granite giving a grand reflection of a very prosperous era.

This building is the Post office which is still operating today with the addition of a newsagency come gift shop.
Did you know that Beechworth was once the richest alluvial goldfield in Vic - and they didn't get it all! Or that Ned Kelly won a bare knuckle prize fight in Beechworth that lasted 20 rounds. The gold fever gripped Victoria in the 1850s until the early decades of the 20th century and left their mark on the towns of Beechworth Chiltern, Rutherglen and Yackandandah, with villages and countryside in between and you can take a self-guided journey by travelling the Indigo Gold Trail.