The Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia covers an area of about 320,000 square kilometres, stretching across seven local government districts from Wiluna in the north to Norseman in the south.

At its hub is the thriving gold mining city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, built on one of the richest gold deposits in the world – an ancient belt of volcanic and sedimentary rock between 2.6 and 2.9 billion years old.

Since its formation in 1946, the Eastern Goldfields Historical Society has been recording, preserving, researching and promoting the history of this region with one goal – “ensuring that our shared heritage and ghost town memories live on.”

The Society holds a comprehensive selection of popular and rare books about the Goldfields and Western Australia including local histories, biographies and reference works. Their resources include a large collection of reference documents, research papers, ephemera and manuscripts.

The Society is the proud custodian of more than 60 000 photographs that are a visual history of the development of the Eastern Goldfields. Subjects range from mining and industry to the people who built the towns and vast pastoral holdings, as well as the region’s Aboriginal residents. See the website for a selection of digitised photographs.

Open Weekdays: 9.00am to 2.00pm

Mail:
The Secretary
Eastern Goldfields Historical Society
P.O. Box 643, Kalgoorlie Western Australia 6433