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Mitchells Creek is a creek in central New South Wales, Australia. Rising north-east of Wellington, New South Wales, Mitchells Creek flows generally northward and joins the Talbragar River about 5 km south-west of Ballimore. The direct distance from its source to its outlet is 31 kilometres, longer via the twists and turns of the watercourse. There is usually no water in the creek. The broad valley through which the creek runs are used for growing wheat. The non-existently localities of Comobella, Windorah and Westella lie within the valley, which has no extant towns or villages. The Golden Highway crosses Mitchell's Creek immediately adjacent to where it merges into the Talbragar River. ==Goldfield== Mitchells Creek Goldfield is claimed to be Australia's first goldfield. It is located at Bodangora near Wellington, New South Wales. Gold was apparently first found in this area by a shepherd called McGregor in Mitchells Creek on the Montefiore's squatting run, Nanima in 1848 (about four years before the “official” discovery of gold in Australia). Newspaper reports of early prospecting are a bit confusing as another Mitchells Creek (now called Sunny Corner) was also a goldfield and was located to the south–east. The Bathurst Free Press noted on 25 May 1850 “Neither is there' any doubt in the fact that Mr. M'Gregor found a considerable quantity of the precious metal some years ago, near Mitchell's Creek, and it is surmised he 'still, gets more in the same locality" which pre-dates the extravagant claims of Edward Hargraves to be the first discover of gold in Australia. One published source identifies the shepherd as "Hugh McGregor" 〔Dick, George Turnbull, ''Sofala and the Gold Rushes'', 1994, published by "Adam Press, Glenbrook", ISBN 0-646-18098-3, p. 7.〕 1994. He appears in the press of the day variously as M'Gregor, McGregor and Macgregor. The mining appears to have occurred in several phases: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mitchells Creek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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