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Southern Cross, Western Australia

The townsite of Southern Cross is located in the central agricultural region, 369 km east north east of Perth and 109 km east north east of Merredin. Although now in an agricultural region, Southern Cross began as a gold mining town, gold having been discovered here in 1888. The original prospecting party to find gold here named the area after the Southern Cross constellation they had used at when travelling at night. Further rich finds of gold in the area resulted in Southern Cross booming, almost over night, and the townsite was gazetted in 1890.

Shops in Antares Street, Southern Cross - Photo SLWA
 

Reccomended reading:

"They Wished Upon a Star" by P.T. McMahon 1972, Great book for those with an interest in the Yilgarn Area - Indexed

The Early Days of the Yilgarn District edited by Peter J Bridge and Angela Teague, ISBN 978-0-85905-445-4, 

This collection forms part of a series of biographies and reminiscences of the earliest prospectors of the Yilgarn Goldfields. While the answers as to priority, were to a certain extent, answered long ago, this information has become scattered and lost to all but the most determined researchers.

Available from:
Hesperian Press - https://www.hesperianpress.com/
and The Eastern Goldfields Historical Soc - https://www.kalgoorliehistory.org.au/