Deserted Towns Series
Cooktown to Palmer Volume 1 -
ISBN: 978-0-9757750-1-1 2007
The maps, town plans, photos, statistics and anecdotal history of deserted towns and camps of the Palmer River Goldfields and Cooktown Tin fields. |
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The Palmer River Goldfield was Queensland's biggest gold field which in its heyday had the gazetted towns of Byerstown, Degarra, Evandale, Gregory, Groganville, Hamilton, Ida, Marton, Maytown as well as 26 camps.
Below are a few of the photos found in this book - Cooktown Palmer River North Queensland Deserted Towns.
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| Maytown slate kerb & channeling | Miners cottage, Annan River 1907 | Packing tin across the Roaring Meg 1911 |
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| The Palmer-Gregory Triple boilers, beam pump, and winding engine on the Queen of the North mine | Parrot Creek dam & sluice 1906 | Saw pit Little Scrub Shiptons Flat 1911 |
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| Sluice boxes Annam River Tin Co 1913 | Palmer River flood 1911 Limestone Creek Confluence | The-Palmer- Palmer Camps- Chinese oven on Granite Creek. |
Stories of Deserted Mining Towns and Camps in North Queensland, Australia by Colin Hooper
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Angor to Zillmanton * Cooktown - Palmer Vol.1 -
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