Rathscar
Town in Victoria, Australia
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Rathscar is a locality in Pyrenees Shire and the Shire of Central Goldfields. The area to the east of the Avoca River known as Rathscar West was surveyed in 1899.[2]
Rathscar | |
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Typical wheat country in central Victoria | |
  Rathscar | |
| Coordinates: 36.9742287°S 143.5212222°E | |
| Country | Australia |
| State | Victoria |
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| Population | |
| • Total | 19 (SAL 2021)[1] |
| Postcode | 3465 |
Gold mining
People
The "largest landholder and possibly the wealthiest" in the area was Charles Wilson from Sunny Park[4] ( Coordinates 36.9813035°S 143.607879°E ). Wilson's daughter Maude Wilson married John Miller in 1901 at Sunny Park and they then lived in the Rathscar district where their four children were born.
Property
There was a Primary School (Numbered 1535) at Rathscar West.[5]
Rathscar West had a Methodist church, initially constructed in timber and built around 1870.[6] As well as the Sunday services, the church hosted a number of activities including concerts,[7] harvest festivals[8] and Sunday School picnics.[9]
The timber building was replaced by brick church (recycled from the former Methodist Church / Wesleyan Chapel Homebush - 6 km away) in 1928.[10][6] In 2018, this former Rathcar West church building is now privately owned.[11][12]
The Pyrenees Shire Council has documented a number of buildings in Rathscar including the Methodist Church, the Avonlea Farm House and the Elliot farm complex, in the Avoca Heritage Study: 1864 - 1994 - Volume 3.[6]
