Maldon’s Government Reserve: more than a camp for cops and crooks.

Come walk with us - who knows who you will meet along the way?

The Maldon Heritage Network, in partnership with the Maldon Neighbourhood Centre, invites you to step back in time and take a walk through the former Maldon government reserve and police camp to imagine the hurly burly of the goldfields and beyond.

Established as the Police Commissioner’s camp by 1854, the area housed the first government buildings of Maldon, a township surveyed on the Tarrangower diggings in the same year. In February 1854 the camp at Tarrangower was described as ‘miserable’.

As quartz reefs were tapped and mined for gold, a more permanent population settled at Maldon and conditions slowly improved at the camp, with many of the early government buildings remaining in evidence today.

On this walk through history a host of strange and wonderful characters will tell you tall tales and true about the places on site that evidence the life and times of Maldon from the 1850s to the 1960s.

Image: View of the Market Place and Court House, Maldon, by Henry J. C. Mitchell c.1864. (Image courtesy of the Maldon Museum and Archives Association, catalogue VMLD-3061)

Event dates

Event Details

Address:
95 High Street Maldon, Victoria 3463

Meet at the Maldon Post Office

Times:

Sunday 27 April 2025, 2:00pm-4:00pm
Sunday 18 May 2025, 11:00am-1:00pm

Entry fees:
Free
Booking:
Prebooking requiredinfo@maldonnc.org.au03 5475 2093
Onsite facilities:
Social:
Other things
you need to know:
Please note that each walk is approximately two kilometres long and will take about two hours. The route of the walks include some unmade paths and uneven ground.