Grant's Crusher
In Warrandyte, Lewis Grant built a water wheel on the Yarra behind the post office to drive a crusher, for the purpose of extracting gold. |
| Grants Battery (Gold Crusher) 1868 (Warrandyte Heritage) |
Extract from 1969 11 DTHS Newsletter
Lewis Dudley Grant
It says “Lewis Dudley Grant is the Beloved Son of Lewis Grant”. Lewis Grant comes to Warrandyte is an entrepreneur who came from Bendigo, where he has been a shopkeeper, a miner, he built crusher but he comes to Andersons Creek , he takes up the pub.He builds a Hotel water wheel and crusher behind where the old post office is today.
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| Lewis Grant and Lilly Gravestone, Andersons Creek Cemetery |
Lewis Dudley is his son and he dies in the Antimony Mine Disaster in Templestowe. He was very young and obviously his father was quite devistated. There are reports of the Funeral where his Father says” My Beloved Son”. So he obviously used that term a lot. The daughter Lilly we know nothing about. This accident was featured in “The Broken Hill Express”, and every Mining Town Newspaper around the Country.
The Grants feature again and again and again in the Gold History of Warrandyte.
(DW. Later research. Lewis Dudley Grant died 13th August 1892 aged 34 years, his sister Lilly Grant died 4th April 1893 aged 31 years).
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State Crusher
State Crusher gold warrandyte 1898 stamping battery and waterwheel |
| State Crusher 1898 (Warrandyte Heritage) |
State Crusher
During the depression of the 1890's the Government looked to gold mining to aid the economy. As encouragement to mining at Warrandyte a State Crusher was built.The crusher, driven by a large waterwheel, was erected on the south branch of the Yarra, just upstream from the bridge.
By the 1920's the crusher was no longer required. There was a demand that it be kept there as monument to the days of gold mining.
However, the State Crusher was moved to another goldfield. A cairn has been placed near the road above the site of the crusher and waterwheel.
Extract from Irvine Green writing in 1978 02 DTHS Newsletter
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