8 pages. The publication data, apart from the date, is taken from Trove as the pamphlet offers none. Included 'The Harcourt Valley 150th Anniversary Celebrations. Programme 2nd - 8th October" 18 pages. "Harcourt is a rural township on the Calder Highway and the railway line from Melbourne to Bendigo. It is 9 km north-east of Castlemaine and on the western side of the Mount Alexander range. To the east of the town is Barkers Creek, a stream which flows towards Castlemaine and which was the site of much easily won alluvial gold during gold rushes in 1851-52. Mount Alexander is the dominant landscape element at Harcourt. (It was named by the New South Wales Surveyor-General in 1836 after Alexander the Great.) In 1845 Dr William Barker acquired the Mount Alexander pastoral run and built a homestead beside Barkers Creek, Harcourt North. The gold discovery at Specimen Gully, on the Barkers Creek, was reputedly made by employees of Barker in 1851." (victorianplaces)