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When gold was discovered on the Turon River in 1851, Sofala became one of the first places in Australia to experience a gold rush. In the following 2 decades as many as 40 000 people, about 1/4 of them Chinese, crammed onto the
Turon Goldfield.
Now, a small peaceful town 250km north west of Sydney, Sofala retains much of the character of its boom days. The twisting and narrow main street is lined with two-storey buildings, most of them more than a century old. |
