Henry Stuart's Great Western Store

Hill End owes its existence to the New South Wales gold rush of the 1850's. At its peak in the early 1870's it had a population estimated at 8,000 served by two newspapers, five banks, eight churches & twenty-eight pubs.

The town declined when the gold gave out & by 1945 the population was 700. At the 2006 census, Hill End had a population of 166 people.