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&_160;• Summer (DST) Originally known as Sandhurst, the city grew quickly out of the Victorian gold rush and became established as a major provincial hub and minor financial centre, being home to Australia's only provincially headquartered retail bank, the Bendigo Bank and the Bendigo Stock Exchange (BSX). Bendigo is notable for its Victorian architectural heritage and gold mining. In 1851 Mrs Margaret Kennedy and Mrs Farrell, wives of two farmhands from the Ravenswood sheep run, found gold in the Bendigo creek. Word of the discovery spread quickly and soon after the township of Sandhurst was established, a Post Office opening on July 1, 1852 as Bendigo Creek (renamed Sandhurst on January 1, 1854 and Bendigo June, 1891).[2]
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