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Electoral District Of Mount Margaret
Mount Margaret was an Electoral districts of Western Australia, electoral district of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1901 to 1930, located in the northeastern Goldfields-Esperance, Goldfields region. Upon its creation in 1900, the district was the largest in the colony, taking in a significant portion of Western Australia's interior. Its population was based on the Mount Margaret, Western Australia, Mount Margaret goldfield, including the towns of Malcolm, Western Australia, Malcolm, Murrin Murrin, Western Australia, Murrin Murrin, Leonora, Western Australia, Mount Leonora, Kurrajong, Western Australia, Kurrajong, Woodarra, Western Australia, Woodarra, Sir Samuel, Western Australia, Sir Samuel, Laverton, Western Australia, Laverton, Wiluna, Western Australia, Wiluna, and Lawlers, Western Australia, Lawlers. The district had only one member over the course of its 29-year existence. George Taylor ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Margaret, Western Australia
Mount Margaret was an abandoned town located northeast of Perth and southwest of Laverton in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The first European to visit the area was government surveyor John Forrest who passed through in 1869 while on an expedition in search of the lost explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. On 25 June he named a nearby hill Mount Margaret after Margaret Elvire Hamersley whom he later married in 1876. The local indigenous name for the hill is ''Kalgara''. Gold was discovered at the site of the future town in 1893 by prospectors James Ross and Bob McKenzie. The town's main mine was the Mt Morven (formerly the Mt Margaret Reward), situated on the eastern side of the townsite. By 1896 the local progress association began campaigning for the townsite to be declared. By 1897 lots had been surveyed and the townsite was gazetted in the same year. A police station opened in the town in 1898 but was closed in 1899. Following a drought in the area in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |