Tuena

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High in the Abercrombie district of the Great Dividing Range, where the countryside is a rugged knotted mountain chain is the small village of Tuena. Settled by gold prospectors, Tuena is a village surrounded by ghosts of the past. Fossickers, miners, Chinese prospectors, former storekeepers, blacksmiths, butchers, wheelwrights, bushrangers and desperadoes all found their way to Tuena for the gold rush which lasted over 60 years.

The first settlement was a miner's shanty town, with hundreds of tents and huts. Hotels and stores soon followed and Tuena was formally declared a town in 1859. The oldest surviving building is the "Bookkeeper's Cottage" built in 1861. Built in 1866 is the Goldfields Inn, the only remaining hotel in Tuena. The current General Store is built next to the original and contains fixtures from the original store.