A Curious Case in Higginsville, 1907 In the early days of January 1907, the quiet mining town of Higginsville, Western Australia, found itself at the centre of a curious legal drama. Nestled in the…

Map of Giles’s Route (Surveyor General’s Office, 1875) – Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Australia. Digitized and available via the National Library of Australia; this work is out of…

On this day in 1897, Roebourne defeated Cossack in a close match.

Our project team are working hard to capture as many records as possible of the people in WA’s ghost communities. Once our website and search engine is fully operational you will be able to a…

“The only man who ever made Coolgardie blossom like a rose” Something rarely mentioned about the Eastern Goldfields is – how did people get fresh veggies? It’s hard to imagi…

The Nannine Police Station was built in 1896 and in 1922 it was uplifted and moved to Yalgoo.

Murder in Bowgada

Kundip

A contemporary account of the establishment of Cossack.

I just came across this article in the Sunday Chronicle of 12 Dec 18971. It struck my funny bone and so I wanted to share it with you!! Perhaps, given the sombre nature of the background to the art…

The Mid West is one of the nine region s of Western Australia. It stretches east and north from the west coast covering a area of more than 400,000km2. The capital of the Mid West is the City of Ge…

Grave marker in the Field’s Find Cemetery1 Region: Mid WestLGA: Shire of YalgooAKA: Fields FindIndustry: Gold MiningCoordinates: 29°02’20.0″S 117°14’30.0″EWhat3Words:&…

YouTube video by Daniel Loftus Genealogy

What was school like for the children and teachers of Western Australia’s Ghost Towns?  In the years of rapid growth of mining communities, timber camps and the railways, (which encouraged the open…

Cossack in 1886 was a frontier town in one of the most isolated colonies in the world.  It was a centre for pearling and pearl shell fishing and the entry point for pastoralists who establishe…

In 1872, the government offered a reward of £5,000 for the discovery of the first payable goldfield in the colony of Western Australia1. In 1879, Alexander Forrest explored the Fitzroy and Ord Rive…

Around 1900, regular information came filtering through on the Ularring District and its goldfields, claiming that they were likely to be ‘second to none’ in mining outcomes. Ularring was…