Gormanston

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Gormanston, population 170. About one tenth what it was about a century ago when the town was home to employees of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company, along with all the services a town needs: shops, hotels, local government, school, post office.



Cut from a photo from the State Library of Victoria. Their photo is larger, if you want to look at details.

Another early view of the town






Earlier view of this building






























Just to finish off, a photo from the National Archives (but the link probably doesn't work). The caption is "An old-time prospector at home, on the outskirts of Gormanston, near Queenstown, a copper-mining centre on the rugged west coast of Tasmania."