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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.
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.
Gagnon, Quebec, an iron mining company town of Québec Cartier Mining Company, abandoned in 1985. This is a list of current and former company towns in Canada. True company towns are those "closed communities owned and administered by the industrial employer". [1]
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
Ghost towns in Canada by province or territory This is a list of lists of ghost towns in Canada . A ghost town is a town that once had a considerable population, that has since dwindled in numbers causing some or all its business to close, either due to the rerouting of a highway , train tracks being pulled, or exhaustion of some natural resource .
The area now known as Canbelego is part of the traditional lands of Wangaaypuwan dialect speakers (also known as Wangaibon) of Ngiyampaa people. [8] [9]The Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell and his expedition had camped and obtained water, in early 1845, at a place that he called "Canbelego" but that was not the later site of the village; it was a location—on Bogan River, near to the modern ...
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 ...
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'.