The Kanowna Road District was an early form of local government area on the Western Australian goldfields.
6-656: It was established on 19 June 1896 as the North East Coolgardie Road District , providing basic local government to the rural areas around the mining town of Kanowna , which had already been incorporated as the Municipality of Kanowna four months earlier on 28 February. The board's offices were based in Larkin Street in Kanowna township, although that was located outside the road board boundaries. A section of
12-592: A large amount of gold, previously undiscovered because the vein did not reach the surface, made gold mining in the region economically viable again. Mining recommenced in 1986, initially as open-cut mining , before moving to underground mines. As of 2002, the Kanowna Belle mine employed more than 300 people. This article about a location in Western Australia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Australian ghost town -related article
18-566: The Great Depression , and by 1953 the town had been abandoned. The railway station platform, two cemeteries and mine workings are all that is left of the original town of Kanowna. Signs erected by the Eastern Goldfields Historical Society mark the sites of significant buildings. Increasing gold prices in the late 1970s sparked renewed interest in exploring the geology of the area for new sources of gold. The discovery of
24-527: The amalgamation. It ceased to exist on 15 September 1922, when it was merged into the Kalgoorlie Road District . Kanowna, Western Australia Kanowna is a ghost town in the Goldfields region of Western Australia , about 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Kalgoorlie . At the 2016 census, Kanowna had a population of 10 people. After the discovery of gold in the area in 1893,
30-629: The district separated as the Menzies Road District on 31 May 1912. The Municipality of Kanowna merged into the road district on 26 January 1917, as a result of which it was renamed the Kanowna Road District on the same day. The road district was also divided into two wards at that time: one for the township and one for the rural areas. The road board relocated to the former Kanowna council chambers in Golconda Street, Kanowna following
36-457: The townsite was gazetted in 1894. and the population grew from 2,500 in 1897 to over 12,500 by 1899. However, the alluvial gold supply was rapidly exhausted and underground mines following the outcropping vein produced decreasing amounts of gold, resulting in a slow but steady decrease in the population. The railway station, terminus of the Kalgoorlie to Kanowna railway line , was closed during
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