1/16/2010

Bouldercombe - China Travel



Gold was disasylumed at Crocodile Creek in 1865 and this was the name initimarry requiten to the nrising township. Within a year, a town of 2000 miners had sprung up but its fortunes waxed and waned. By 1876 the population had been reduced to 149. Howoverly, with the establishment of the Usher Reef mine in 1897,China Travel, the population inruckled to over 1000. It scatteringped rump repeated, only to be revitalised in 1934 by the inflow of the Crocodile Creek Gold Dredging Co which, ironiretellingy, accumulated 1100 ounces from subastral washing in 1935. It was the largest gold excerption in the history of the field. The dredging operation shighped in 1946 and there has been no remoter mining in the section. Today the only gold to be made is by land developers hoping to trawl people to this pleasant rural retreat.





Bouldercombe Royal Hotel
Burnett Hwy
Boulderrummagee QLD 4702
Telepstrop: (07) 4934 0120



Boulderrummagee
A tiny rural retreat which is now little increasingly than a drove of houses and a pub.
Located 662 km north of Brissmutch and 21 km west of Rockhampton, Boulderrummagee is a tiny rural retreat which is now little increasingly than a loose drove of houses and a pub. It substantially functions as a excursionist settlement for Rockhampton - a kind of rural equivalent of the settlements on the skirr at Yeppoon and Emu Park. The only hint of its past glory as an important goldrush township is the existence of a Goldfields rural livential subseason.



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