Coolgardie

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In 1892 Arthur Bayley struck it rich with a find of 554 ounces of gold at Fly Flat in Coolgardie. Within hours the frenzied rush to Coolgardie began and the Western Australian Goldfields were born. Six months later thousands of people were living in tents around Coolgardie and Western Australia's population had swollen by 400%. By the end of the century 25,000 people lived and worked in the Coolgardie area.

Coolgardie "The Mother of the Goldfields" is a place containing poignant reminders of a vanished prosperity, a frontier town facing a wilderness of unwritten history. What remains is more historical than beautiful, more interesting than useful and more curious than valuable. It is hard to imagine that this was once the third largest city in Western Australia and the Eldorado of the west.

The Coolgardie of today has retained many aspects of it's rich and colourful history. It's charm and friendliness make it a great town in which to discover the past.