Old Mogo Town ~ Gold Rush Theme Park, near Batemans Bay, South Coast New South Wales, Australian
Old Mogo Town, Tourism theme park near Batemans Bay, south coast NSW
Surveyors, gold claims and town lay out
Surveyors marked out gold claims and layed out towns.

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Surveryors office of the 1800s gold rush ~ marking out gold claims and laying out towns
The Wash House ~ Old Mogo Town

Wash House

This building was originally a Surveyor's hut and used at Old Mogo Town as a maintenance shed for Betsy the Steam engine.

It is now The Wash House where laundry would be done for a fee. There are old coppers for boiling the linen, an original hand turned timber washing machine and a mangle to squeeze the excess water out of the washing.

Mangles were still used during the 1950's but were then rapidly replaced by electric spindryers and washing machines. The household wash dolly, corrugated washboard and flat irons remained in use in the settlers cottages.
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Living history of the gold rush days in new south wales

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Discover Australian Gold Rush History at Mogo
between Batemans Bay and Moruya on the South Coast of NSW Australia.

Living history of the gold rush days in new south wales

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