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Hargraves (Co. Wellington) 32°48’S. 149°28’E., 25 km SW of Mudgee, on Louisa Ck; Louisa Creek till 1872; surveyed 1859 by John Alexander Horatio Price, town gaz. 1860; mining (gold disc. 1851) mainly 1894-1903, then farming, grazing, fossicking; Angl. C. (St Stephen’s) 1852, new one 1860; cemeteries: pioneer (15 graves 1856-89), general (101 graves), Rom. Cath. (71 graves 1858+); CH, closed; dam (Great Nugget Vein Co.); earth tremor 1934; fire 1907; mines: Alma, Big Nugget (incl. headframe), Blackfellow, Blue Spec (North Mt Boppy Co.) 1908-12 and 1933, Brown Eagle, Eldorado Hill (F. Fletcher) <1875, 1896-1900, 1902-4, Eureka (bought 1874 by Redell), Florence, Florrie, Frenchman’s, Happy Dick’s, Lizzie Watson, Main Axis, Mudgee; PO 1856; pound (stock) 1865; Presb. C. 1856; PS closed; 2 quarries; Rom. Cath. C. (St Mary’s) 1856; school (Louisa Creek till 1862) 1856, new one b. 1858, additions 1882 by G. Leggatt, new one b. 1910 by John Baker, additions 2010; stamper battery; telegraph 1888; TX 1927, automatic 1985; watch-house b. 1869 by J. Atkinson, repairs 1905 by G. Collyer and W. Carmichael; pop. 330 (1861), 231 (1871), 221 (1881), с.300 (1886), 178 (1891), 212 (1901), 280 (1911), 219 (1933), 229 (1947), 174 (1954), 261 (1961), с.150 (1987), 338 (2011)1 .