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Railway Hotel, Ravenswood
Railway Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at Barton Street, Ravenswood, Queensland, Ravenswood, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built . It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History The Railway Hotel, a large brick hotel placed opposite the site of the railway station in Ravenswood, is one of a handful of buildings which survive from this once important mining town. It was built about 1901 for John Moran and is the second hotel of this name he operated on this site. The discovery of several important goldfields in Queensland in the nineteenth century formed a major component in the development of North Queensland.The need to access and exploit gold finds determined the path of railways, the establishment of related industries and commerce and the location of settlements. Some of these were short lived "rushes", where tent and shanty townships disappeared almost as quickly as they rose. Other settlements based on goldfields b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenswood, Queensland
Ravenswood is a rural town and locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Ravenswood had a population of 255 people. It is historically and currently a gold mining town. Geography The Flinders Highway loosely bounds parts of the north-western boundary of the locality, entering from the north-east ( Reid River) and exiting to the west ( Broughton). The Great Northern railway line takes a similar route to the highway mostly immediately parallel to the highway to the north or the south, with the following stations: * Cardington railway station, now abandoned () * Woldston railway station() * Fanning railway station, now abandoned () There are a number of neighbourhoods within the locality: * Boori () * Cardington () * Kirk () * Rochford () * Silver Valley () * Waigera () * Woldston () History After the discovery of gold in 1868 through to the early 1900s, the township flourished and grew to nearly 5000 residents and boasted 48 hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
