The Back Country Honors its Dead

Sunday Times – Sunday 29 September 1912, page 11 THE GRAVE OF A PIONEER Walter B (S) Williams –  the Prospector of Mt Ida Wandering about the goldfields of this State, away from the beaten paths, it may be, one sometimes unexpectedly happens across a lonely grave. Sometimes, but very rarely, it’s merely a mound […]

Fond Memories shared – the Mt Ida Reunion

Mt Ida (Copperfield) In August 2008 people traveled from interstate and as far away as Canada, for a weekend reunion of former Mt Ida residents at the old gold mining town site. Some 92 people gathered for the reunion, held on the last weekend of August 2008. The reunion started with a barbecue at the […]