GOLDFIELDS HISTORY

Londonderry

.....Londonderry is a townsite in the eastern goldfields, 14 km south south west of Coolgardie, just west of the Coolgardie-Norseman railway.

Gold was discovered here in early 1894 by a party of six prospectors who named the find after the home town in Northern Ireland of one of the prospectors.

It was a rich find which was taken over by Lord Fingall in September 1892, but the gold soon petered out.

A townsite was gazetted in 1895. The townsite is now abandoned..........