The Chinese gold seekers who came to the Ovens Goldfields, in the 1850s, originated from the five counties of the Pearl River delta area of Guangdong Province. The Beechworth Chinese Cultural Centre undertakes to collect, preserve and display the history of the Chinese people of the Ovens Goldfield district for educational and research purposes.
Chinese coins dug up on the site of one of the Chinese camps in Beechworth, called Little Canton.