Outback Graves Markers
Outback Graves Markers
Region: Goldfields-Esperance
Coordinates: -28.9425, 121.8153
Directions: 883 km east of Perth and on the Old Laverton Road between Leonora and Laverton, about 50 km east of Leonora
Number of Graves: 3
First Burial: January 1900 an unnamed baby who died from unknown causes
Last Burial: 24 August an unnamed baby boy aged 12 hours died from unknown causes
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Began as a mining camp as part of a gold rush with allotments becoming available in 1896 and were reserved for a future town site.
Town lots were sold in 1900. However, the new railway to Laverton (built in 1905) bypassed the area by 2 kilometres and the boundaries were extended in 1906 and the town’s development then occurred at the railway site. There was a corrugated hotel at the town’s original site in 1896. By 1906 two hotels had been erected nearer to the Railway station in the extended town site.
A police station was built in 1906 and closed in 1911 but reopened in 1943 until finally closed in 1951
Murrin is an Aboriginal word for a species of Acacia tree. – Murrin Murrin refers to the abundance of trees in the area.
Alfred Edward Morgans who later became Premier of WA established a short-lived copper smelting mine in the area in 1896.
