Ophir, New South Wales
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Ophir is the name of a locality in New South Wales, Australia in Cabonne Shire.
Ophir is located near the Macquarie River northeast of the city of Orange. Ophir is the place where gold was first discovered in New South Wales in 1851, leading to the Australian gold rushes[citation needed].
The Lister brothers, John and James, and Edmund Hargraves found payable gold in February 1851 at the Ophir gold diggings, located at the confluence of Summer Hill Creek and Lewis Ponds Creek . Hargraves was awarded £10,500 (worth $1,125,434 in 2004 values) by the NSW Government.
Ophir was named after the biblical reference, see Ophir.
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