Situated 23 kilometres south-west of Townsville, the historic town of Ravenswood experienced a gold rush in 1868. In its heyday the town had a large itinerant mining population and was serviced by over 50 pubs.
Keir Reeves
References
Moore, Bruce, Gold! Gold! Gold!: a dictionary of the nineteenth-century Australian gold rushes, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, 2000. [ Details... ]