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Anzac Hill and the Turkish cannon
Brewery and Butts Reserve
Denominational School
Derby Hill
Grave of Elisabeth Anset and son
Lake Cairn Curran
Maldon Cemetery
Mount Tarrangower and
Lookout Tower
Reservoirs - original town reservoirs
Victorian Goldfields Steam Train
Anzac
Hill and the Turkish cannon 
The lookout by the "Gallipoli
gun" provides a good lookout over the town and is a popular place for
artists and photographers who want to capture a view of the town. The gun is of
German manufacture and was apparently captured in Palestine and shipped to
Australia at the end of the war. It was installed in its present location as a
memorial to the ANZAC troops.
Brewery and Butts Reserve 
A picnic site and shelter at the
start of the road to Mount Tarrangower. The area was the location of a spring
that provided an early water supply for the town and the site of the Maldon
Brewery.
Denominational School 
The building was
erected in 1856 at a cost of £572 and was used as a school house and meeting
place for the Church of England. It was partly demolished by a storm in 1857 and
rebuilt in 1862. The stonework is believed to have been done by W Bowes and
Sons. It functioned as a Church School until 1873 when it became the Maldon
State School. The school closed in 1875 with the opening of the Maldon State
School in High Street.
Derby Hill 
The hill on the western side of Main
street, overlooks the town, and on the walking track around the hill can still
be seen the remains of several mines and a crushing battery.
Grave of Elisabeth Anset and son 
The isolated grave in Chapel
Street South is that of Elizabeth Anset (nee Burton) aged 27 and her 14 day old
son, who died on 19 July 1854. Before the Maldon Cemetery was established the
area around the grave site was the location of the Wesleyan Church graveyard.
Lake Cairn Curran 
The reservoir to the west of
Maldon dams the Loddon River and takes its name from the 100,000 acre original
pastoral run Cairn Curran that was established in 1840. The construction of the
reservoir was started in 1947 and was completed in 1956 using large numbers of
European migrants. The water from the reservoir is used for irrigation and the
4,800 acre facility is also used for recreational boating and fishing.
Long Gully 
The gully runs along the rear of
the shops, on the Western side of Main Street. The gully was the site of the
first discovery of alluvial gold in 1853 and at the peak of the gold rush was
worked by an estimated 20,000 diggers for several kilometres of its length.
Maldon Cemetery 
The cemetery's
first interments were recorded in 1856 and the cemetery was gazetted in 1860.
The lodge was built around 1866 for use as the caretaker's house and the rotunda
is thought to have been built around 1900 to shelter mourners. There have been
over 5000 burials, including 121 Chinese. There is also a large brick Chinese
funeral oven of unusual design that was for the burning of offerings to the
spirits of the dead.
Mount Tarrangower and lookout tower 
The Mount is 571 metres above sea-level and gives a 360° view to a
distance over 60 kilometres. The 24 metre lookout tower is the poppet head from
the Comet Mine in Bendigo and was brought to Maldon in 1924. The sections of the
tower were brought by rail and then by horse drawn wagons to the Mount. The
tower is lit each year at the time of the Easter Festival and is visible up to
60 kilometres away.
Reservoirs - original town reservoirs 
Lack of water was
always a problem in Maldon and its goldfields. In its early years, water was
provided by several local springs and by water carted from the Loddon. The
town's first natural catchment reservoir was built in 1861 at a cost of £1,385
at the Western end of Adair Street. The first reservoir leaked badly and a
second reservoir was constructed in 1876 at the end of Fountain Street. This
second reservoir supplied Maldon's water until 1884 when water was piped in from
Malmsbury. A pump was installed in 1896 in Long Gully to pump the water to a
retaining basin above the town.
Victorian Goldfields Steam Train

The Maldon Railway Station and the rail line to Castlemaine were
completed in 1884. The line ran 16 km to Castlemaine and crossed 13 bridges and
at its peak ran three times a day. A branch line to Shelbourne was constructed
in 1891. The line was eventually closed in 1976 and was taken over by the
non-profit association Victorian Goldfields Railway who now run it as a tourist
attraction. The line has now been completed allowing the train to run
through to Castlemaine.
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