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Maytown
Ghost town · Australia
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- -16.050, 144.283
Why it was abandoned
⛏️ Gold rush
Detected automatically from the text: Maytown was the main township on the Palmer River Goldfields in Far North Queensland, Australia.
History
Maytown was the main township on the Palmer River Goldfields in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is now a ghost town within locality of Palmer in the Shire of Cook, having been active from c. 1874 to the 1920s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 1 June 2004.