Ernest Giles and the 1875 Expedition Across Australia 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…

One of Australia's lesser known explorers. #ghostswa #FamilyHistoryWA #genealogy #familyhistory @christineharris.bsky.social @oneplacestudies.bsky.social
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Nannine Police Station The Nannine Police Station was built in 1896 and in 1922 it was uplifted and moved to Yalgoo.

Did you know that the Yalgoo Post Office was originally in Nannine? #ghostswa #familyhistory #genealogy #history #westernaustralia #familyhistoryWA
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The Pearl Fisheries at Tien-Tsin, North-West Australia A contemporary account of the establishment of Cossack.

Cossack, originally called Tien-Tsin, was a major port critical to the development of the pastoral industry in the north west. The story of its establishment, written at the time, makes for fascinating reading.
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Field’s Find 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:&…

Have you ever heard of Field's Find?
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The 11th Battalion AIF project aimed at naming all the soldiers in the famous photograph of the troops on the Cheops pyramid.
The project website is 11btn.wags.org.au/index.php.
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Lest we forget. ❤️

Come and visit FamilyHistoryWA at Have A Go Day this coming Wednesday, from 9:00 til 3:00, at Burswood Park, Great Eastern Highway.
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The first rush 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…

The first gold discoveries in Western Australia started in the late 1870s. Here's a bit about the first WA goldrush...
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Tough Conditions and Complicated Lives 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…

A story from one of Western Australia’s ghost town. #ghostswa #genealogy #familyhistory #FHWA #FamilyHistoryWA

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