Eldorado Museum

The Eldorado Museum Collection is sited in the original school house No. 246 built in 1870.  The school rooms and out-sheds house a large variety of items.

Social and domestic purposes: irons, ovens, pots, butter churns, scales, phonographs and cylinders, school items such as readers and school papers, lodge regalia, costumes and textiles, books, bottles, toys, silver and pewter objects, porcelain and china.

Mining: Gold and tin mining relics from the Cock's Eldorado gold and tin dredge as well as various mines in the area, photographic history of the mining 1850-1950.

Agricultural implements: Drays, ploughs, traction and steam engines, reapers, binders, Cahoon seed spreader, corn sheller, dray harness, animal traps, wine press, farm carts.

Blacksmith's shop: Fireplace, bellows, anvil, hammers and other tools, horseshoes.

Tools: Wood workers hand tools, saws, mining implements.

Genealogy: School records, cemetery records  WW1 records and some photos, lodge and church records, mining records.

War Memorabilia: Helmets, medals, souvenirs, bayonets.

Gemstones: A collection of gemstones and minerals.