Historic Hinnomunjue Bridge - VIC

There are two bridges here. The historic bridge is no longer used for vehicle traffic but there is a pullover Bay with information and parking to enable you to have a look.
The Mitta (Hinnomunjie) Bridge
The original route from Omeo to the Mt Wills and upper Mitta Mitta goldfields was not past Anglers Rest, but via a shorter route known as the Knocker Track. The Hinnomunjie Crossing was an important link between these goldfields.
After the discovery of gold at Omeo in the early 1850s miners were prospecting the surrounding ranges. Alluvial gold was discovered in many localities along the upper Mitta Mitta River and its tributaries in the late 1850s and early 1860s. Only small parties of miners occupied the area until large tin lodes were discovered at Wombat Creek and Mt Wills in 1888. Within a year, the whole of the mountainside was pegged out by hastily floated companies. Despite the erection of expensive recovery plants, the field proved a failure and by the mid 1890s work on the tin had virtually ceased.
During the early 1890s gold-bearing quartz reef mines were being developed around new mining centres at Glen Wills, Glen Valley and Sunnyside. Far more substantial than the brief tin mining boom, numerous reefs were taken up, with companies erecting crushing and recovery machinery. Gold mining continued to flourish until about 1900, when two large mines were still at work.
Most reef workings were abandoned by the end of the First World War, and Sunnyside was all but deserted by 1920. The Maude and Yellow Girl continued to be worked at Glen Wills until the 1950s, but by this time the route via Anglers Rest and the present Omeo Highway was attracting the majority of the traffic. For a brief period, the Mitta truss bridge provided an important link to the goldfields of Mt Wills.