The town of Woodarra was surveyed and gazetted on January 14, 1898. It was also known as Darlot, Lake Darlot, or Ballangarry, all names were used at different times. It was located between Laverton and Leinster. Woodarra is the name given by the local Aboriginals to a line of Granite rocks from which a supply […]
Darlot Remembers 100 years –
03/10/2020 By Leave a Comment
Former residents of the abandoned townsite of Darlot, 130kms north of Leonora, returned to celebrates the towns centenary in December of 1994. Darlot gold mine manager, David Hatch, said that the earliest known Darlot Mining tenement was registered on December 3 1894. This is the date to mark the towns centenary. Plutonic Resources, which runs […]
Woodarra : now your but a memory blurr’d !
06/01/2019 By 3 Comments
The town of Woodarra was surveyed and gazetted on January 14, 1898. Also known as Darlot or Lake Darlot or Ballangarry. All names were used at different times. Woodarra is the name given by the local Aboriginals to a line of Granite rocks from which a supply of water for the residents had been derived, […]
