Rushworth is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is located 157 kilometres north of Melbourne and, at the 2021 Census, had a population of 1,411.
Richard Henry Horne
…of the crime and hanged. In 1854 he was a Goldfields Commissioner at the Waranga goldrush (during the Victorian gold rush) and named the township of Rushworth. During his time there he also reached a peaceful settlement with over 4,000 gold miners who had rioted over the payment of their mining license fee…