Towers gold rush era revisited

Updated August 21 2015 - 11:14am, first published July 30 2015 - 4:00am
Brilliant Extended Mine shift workers in the height of the gold rush at Charters Towers. Photo courtesy of Charters Towers & Dalrymple Archives Group.
Brilliant Extended Mine shift workers in the height of the gold rush at Charters Towers. Photo courtesy of Charters Towers & Dalrymple Archives Group.

IT WAS in 1871 when 12 year old horseboy Jupiter Mosman noticed something glistening in a creek bed while looking for some missing horses, little did he or the accompanying three gold prospectors - Mosman, Clarke and Fraser, suspect that the find would mark a new era in gold discovery in Queensland. They called the find ‘Charters Towers’ and a town was born.

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