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Tampa’s Forgotten Cemetery: A Single Soul at Rest

20/09/2025 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

TAMPA BURIALS 29°13.41’S – 121°50.07’E  –  Cemetery Reserve: 4096 TAMPA – AKA Dingo Creek Tampa is an abandoned goldfields townsite located 805 km east northeast of Perth and about 55 km south of Leonora. Gold was discovered in the Tampa area in the late 1890s, and by 1896, there was enough demand for land for […]

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

The Suicide – by B.E.

25/01/2025 By Moya Sharp 2 Comments

The Sun -Kalgoorlie – 3 April 1904, page 6 ALLEN Frederick ‘Fred’ Howard- of Tampa, who, some weeks ago, committed suicide by hanging.  This verse was written by his mate at the Champion Mine, Kookynie and submitted to ‘The Sun’. THE SUICIDE Before shuffling off this mortal coil. Before being covered with the soil, Just […]

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Filed Under: People, Places, Poets Corner Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kookynie, Suicide, Tampa, Western Australia

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