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Fields Find Cemetery on the Old Yalgoo Road

14/10/2023 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

Fields Find Cemetery – Coordinates: -29.03668, 117.25572 On mining reserve No 14350 12 known burials Fields Find Cemetery Sign – Photo by Doug Hardman In a thicket of acacias on the low side of the present Yalgoo Road, hidden from passing motorists, lies the Fields Find Cemetery. It is a good 1 ½ km by car from […]

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Filed Under: Books, Grave Tales, People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Fields Find, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Yalgoo

The Shadow of Death Hotel & Tiger Tail Jerry

18/02/2023 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

There was a man by the name of John Hawes who was a parish priest up to the 1930s in the Yalgoo/Murchison district. In a biography on his life he tells of how, after riding all day, he spent the night at a lonely wild spot with a well called the ‘Shadow of Death’. There […]

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Filed Under: Hotels, People, Ripping Yarns & Tragic Tales Tagged With: Australian History, Fields Find, Goldfields History, Western Australia, Yalgoo

The Fields Find Tragedy-

27/05/2018 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

The worst accident ever to happen on the Yalgoo Goldfields at Fields Find was on the 31st Aug 1899. On this date, four men were working in the No. 1 shaft of the Fields Find GM. Fields Find is located between Yalgoo and Paynes Find, approximately 54km northwest of Paynes Find. They were Daniel HOGAN […]

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Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Fields Find, Goldfields History, Pinyalling, Western Australia

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