Diggers Rest abounds in history, beginning life as a stopping place on the road to the goldfields, while Harry Houdini further embedded their place in history with Australia’s first sustained, powered, and controlled airplane flight.

The original post office in Diggers Rest opened in 1860, and Caroline Chisholm started a women's shelter in the area. The township grew in the 1870s and 1880s with a general store, post office, weighbridge, mechanics' institute and a chaff mill. But perhaps the most famous story of all is that of Harry Houdini, who undertook Australia’s first sustained, powered, and controlled airplane flight over Diggers Rest 100 years ago.

Houdini’s Café e Cucina hosts fine Italian cuisine, and you can view a replica of the plane from the very first flight. Slightly further on, gaze across the fields and imagine being there as the excitement built. Nearby, you will find Russo Estate, home to the ‘Howdini’ wine range, fine dining, celebrations, and luxury dome accommodation.