Anderson’s Mill Heritage Weekend Inc president Cheryl Just said the event would celebrate the unique cultural heritage and history of Smeaton and surrounding central Victoria. 

“Anderson’s Mill is a landmark Scottish-Australian setting in Smeaton, and it is fitting that it host this celebration of our local arts, culture and heritage.

“With displays and activities from ‘Asking for Trouble’ children’s circus, heritage machinery, and locally produced goldfields quilts, to heritage era dollhouse rooms, artists selling their works and traditional-method flour making and local amateur radio clubs contacting other mills across Australia and the world, there is something for everyone,” she said. 

The mill was built by the Anderson’s with money made from the goldfields. 

In 1862, a report on the working mill appeared in the Creswick Advertiser:

“The five story building is full of flour and wheat and the whole although recently completed presents already a very business like and busy appearance.”

Between 1865 and 1874, annual sales exceeded £30,000 per annum, creating healthy profits. Its waterwheel was the second largest and most powerful to be built in Victoria before 1880.

The mill closed in 1957 and most of the machinery was sold for scrap.

Events will kick off at 10am. 

From dusk, the mill will be lit up with video projections and music for the Regional Centre for Culture’s Now You See It… event.