Former residents of the abandoned townsite of Darlot, 130 km north of Leonora, returned to celebrate the town’s centenary in December 1994. Darlot gold mine manager, David Hatch, said that the earliest known Darlot Mining tenement was registered on December 3 1894. This is the date to mark the town’s centenary. Plutonic Resources, which runs […]
Camel Boots and a Lesson on Butter –
Western Mail 29 August 1940, page 9 A Hot Ride to Darlot The summer of 1895 stands out in my memory as a very hot one. We had sold our claim at Darlot, and our party of five were splitting up. Two had gone to the coast for a holiday. Bill and I had bought […]
Lawlers Golden Dawn: The East Murchison Gold Rush of the 1890s
LAWLERS Latitude 28° 05′ S Longitude 120° 31′ E The townsite of Lawlers is located in the eastern goldfields, about 992 km from Perth. It is also about 32 km from Leinster. Gold was discovered here in 1894 by Patrick J Lawler (“Paddy Lawler”), a prospector who was rewarded for his discovery in 1899. In […]
Darlot – the last 100 years
Former residents of the abandoned townsite of Darlot, 130kms north of Leonora, returned to celebrate the towns centenary in December of 1994. Darlot gold mine manager, David Hatch, said that the earliest known Darlot Mining tenement was registered on December 3 1894. This is the date to mark the towns centenary. Plutonic Resources, which runs […]
Medicine Corner Coolgardie –
The south-eastern corner of Forrest and Lefroy Streets Coolgardie was the scene of a transaction in the early 1890’s that gave the site the name of ‘Medicine Corner’. An old prospector and a young man fresh from Broken Hill camped on the site to which came an old man – he was ‘slab-chested, bow-legged, windmill-armed, […]
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