Editing Litchfield National Park (section)

==Sites designated for preservation==

===Bamboo Creek Tin Mine===
Bamboo Creek tin mine is an example of small scale, labour-intensive mine operated without the benefit of heavy earth machinery.  It was typical of many of the mines in the Northern Territory which operated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially those operated by the Chinese.  The remains include the mine workings; the tin processing mill; and the associated domestic and industrial remains. Tin was discovered at Bamboo Creek in 1906 and was mined irregularly until 1955.  The wide variety of remains are notable in that they reflect the complete range of activities associated with underground mining.  Artefacts relating to ore extraction, processing and transport are present as well as domestic remains and remnants of the explosives magazine.

===Blyth Homestead===
Blyth Homestead is of heritage significance to the Northern Territory due to its architectural and social significance.  The remains consist of the homestead building itself which is a single room, cypress pine and corrugated iron structure encircled by verandahs; a flagstone floor; a scatter of corrugated iron, sandstone blocks and other metal objects; and a set of stockyards constructed using bush timber poles and barbed wire

The homestead was established in 1928 to function as an outstation on Stapleton Station, then owned by Harry Sargent and his family.  It was constructed using bush timber (cypress pine) and iron in the form of a large central room that could be closed up with verandahs around the edges.  Blyth Homestead is one of the few existing examples of this type of building which was formerly common on NT pastoral leases. The Homestead site contains tangible and well-preserved remnants of both pastoral and mining activities.

The isolated location necessitated the occupants to be virtually self-sufficient with a fruit and vegetable garden, milking cows and meat.  A sawmilling plant was used to cut timber needed.  Their income was supplemented by alluvial and reef tin mining to the east of the homestead, the products of which had to be carted by buckboard along a self-made track over the Finiss River.

As described by Max Sargent, the tenth of fourteen children of the Sargent family:
"We were possibly the best fed people in Australia right through the depression, with butter, cream and milk, cheese, [[dried fruit]]s and fresh fruits, fresh vegetables the year round, more than what we could use, but no money!"

The simple bush architecture of the homestead and the opportunistic nature of the mine workings illustrate the harsh conditions under which the Sargent family lived.

===Greenant Creek===
The area of Greenant Creek below the Tjaetaba Falls is a registered Aboriginal sacred site.  Swimming or entering the water is not allowed.  Visitors are requested to observe all signage.

===Aboriginal sacred sites===
There are several sacred and special sites within Litchfield National Park.