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Gold was actually discovered near Marble Bar in 1891 by Francis Jenkins ( he is remembered in the name of the town 's main street ) and two years later the settlement was officially declared a town . Basildene , a huge two storey granite dwelling built in 1912 , is privately owned and not open to the public while Ellens Brook , built in the 1850s by Alfred Bussell for his wife Ellen , is now owned by the National Trust but is a half hour walk from the road . There are potteries and boat cruises and even a Castle Fun Park where models of a Bavarian village , complete with a model of Neuschwanstein Castle , are displayed in an area which also has a mini golf course and a skateboard park . The inception of the town dates from 1886 when Alfred Deakin travelled to California to investigate the model irrigation settlements established in the Californian desert by Canadians William and George Chaffey . Goulburn Weir from 1887-90 dropped the water level and so finished off the dying river trade . The 135-km course incorporates cycling on icy roads , plunging through snow and freezing rivers , skiing on obscure alpine tracks and canoeing through turbulent rapids in icy rivers , winding around Mount Hotham , Omeo and the Dinner Plains , the latter being named by bullock drivers who found the level , well-drained surface an appropriate site for setting up camp . It is also unusual in that the village ( which is 1740 metres above sea level ) is located at the top of the forty or so ski runs , which are serviced by nine ski lifts . The model town of Yallourn was simultaneously developed in order to house the required workers . There is , as always , some confusion over the origin of the name . Located 301 km south of Perth and 280 m above sea level , Manjimup is a typical timber town . Morwell , 148 kilometres east of Melbourne via the Princes Highway and 80 metres above sea level , is situated in Victoria 's energy centre , the Latrobe Valley . To give my colleagues some sense of comparison , it took the automobile industry 100 years to scale such heights . The present name derives from a local Aboriginal word thought to mean ' home of the lizard ' . At 9 and 22 km respectively are the abandoned goldmining settlements of Granite Flat and Lightning Creek . Indeed the town 's name derives from an Aboriginal word which supposedly relates to the marshy nature of the territory .