Boydtown

Boydtown, the monument a man erected to himself is as full of con­tradiction as the great Ben Boyd himself.

Built by Boyd as a port for his whalers and for the export of his mil­lions of sheep, the village once supported 500 people. All but two of the buildings have since been razed by fire or looting since the death of one of Australia’s most influential colonists.

Boyd’s empire began to crumble and he took to the Californian goldfields to repair his fortune but on his return journey he was killed by South Sea natives or in the opinion of some historians took flight under a different name to avoid his creditors.