Kanowna - Ghost Town - Western Australia

In 1905 there were 12 000 people living in this gold mining town 18 km north east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. There were 16 hotels, two breweries and an hourly train service to Kalgoorlie. Fortunes were made overnight as the miners, like a plague of locusts, swept through the area. One of the early miners, Tom O'Connor, walked away from the field with the extraordinary sum of £15 000. All of his gold had been found in a claim which was adjacent to the local cemetery so, in a decision showing no respect for the dead and a huge respect for gold fever, the cemetery was opened up to mining. By 1912 it was no longer a municipality. During the Depression the post office and the railway closed. The school closed down after the war and the last hotel closed its doors in 1952. Nothing now remains except rubble and memories.

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[tr500]

nah....was just visiting

[danjcan]

I love how the graves have wrought iron fences around them, or outlined with stones..seems to be respect for the departed..here in the states, we put them in a coffin, bury them and just let grass grow over them, with a headstone of some sorts.

[gotwofast1]

Great video !!!

[TheAfricangirlz]

Fascinating! I want to explore ghost towns of WA!

[Mechknight73]

There are literally dozens of ghost towns across the WA Goldfields, but some have more evidence of the town existing than others. It was only because it had stone retaining walls that you could see that former rail siding at all

[Tarateesh]

i got gold

[karlkarlkarl1234]

Interesting clip and great discription. Very well done.

[wolfgang207]

did u get any gold??

[woopsohdamnit]

where is yhe town, video should be called old graveyard