Granite Flat

Granite Flat, a historic gold mining settlement in north-east Victoria, lies 75 km south-east of Wodonga, along Snowy Creek, approximately 7 km south-east of Mitta Mitta. Established in 1858, the goldfield attracted over 1,000 residents, including a significant Chinese community. The Mammoth Hydraulic Sluicing Company constructed a nearly 20 km long timber flume in 1886 to transport water for gold mining operations. The flume was demolished in 1908, leaving the 1864 brick Catholic church as the area's most enduring monument. Sluicing operations ceased around 1914, and the population declined, with only a few settlers remaining on farms along the river flats and adjoining slopes. A school was briefly opened in 1936 but was destroyed in the 1939 bushfires, along with most buildings and some gravestones in the Granite Flat cemetery.