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Prize Essay on Peak Hill's Aboriginal Tribes and Mining History
Miss Nellie Farquharson's prize essay surveys Peak Hill area history from ancient black tribal burials near Tomingley and the Bogan River to the rise of alluvial and cyanide mining. It traces early prospectors, the Proprietary and allied mines, and later government land resumption and agricultural growth as Peak Hill developed into a town of about 1200 with its first mayor in 1897.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Farquharson
Peak Hill
Tomingley
Bogan River
Harvey Ranges
Genanagie Run
Fenton, Tayes
Menzies
D. Madden
Fremiagie
Proprietary
The
Crown
Great Eastern
Wythes and Mooneys
Wythes and Mooney
Myalla
United Gould Mining Company
Myalls
Bobby Burns
Smith
Genanagie
Messrs. W. Dawes
J. Matthews
T. Ring
F. Turnrock
T. Smith
J. Thomas
H. N. Gibson
W. Swain
J. B. Kelly
J. A Bamber