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Pages in category "Ghost towns in New South Wales" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
C. Cadia, New South Wales; Caloola; Canbelego; Cangai; Canowindra; Captains Flat; Carcoar, New South Wales; Catherine Hill Bay, New South Wales; Cessnock, New South Wales
Kiandra is an abandoned gold mining town and the birthplace of Australian skiing. The town is situated in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council inside the Kosciuszko National Park. Its name is a corruption of Aboriginal 'Gianderra' for 'sharp stones for knives'.
Joadja (/ dʒ oʊ æ dʒ ə /) is a historic town, now in ruins, in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. The remnants of the town were added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 5 November 1999. [2] It was a thriving mining town between 1870–1911.
Yerranderie was formerly a silver mining town of 2000 people, but the mining industry collapsed in 1927, and the town was cut off from direct access from Sydney by the establishment of the Warragamba Dam and Lake Burragorang in 1959. Country singer Frank Ifield immortalised the event with his song “Yerranderie”. The Yerranderie Post Office ...
Gilgunnia is a locality and ghost town in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia, within the Parish of South Peak in Blaxland County and Cobar Shire. [2] [3] It was once a settlement associated with gold mining, but in 2016 its population was zero. [4] The nearest settlements are Mount Hope (51 km south) and Nymagee (73 km north-east).
Mount Drysdale is a ghost town in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia. It was once a village associated with gold mining. It was once a village associated with gold mining. It lies within the locality of Tindarey, named after the original pastoral holding from which the village site was excised.
By April 1898, just after mining ceased, it was described as seeming "entirely abandoned, there being only a few habitations occupied." Building allotments in the village became worthless within a few years. [32] Some of the now lost streets of the former village were Cobar, Hope, Abbott, Carruthers, Copeland, Reid and Fulton streets. [33]