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Mount Margaret also once known as Craiggiemore is an abandoned town in Western Australia located east of Perth north of Lake Carey and south-west of Laverton in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia. The first European through the area was the explorer John Forrest who visited the area in 1869. He named a nearby hill Mount Margaret after Margaret Elvire Hamersley whom he later married in 1876. The Indigenous Australian name for the same hill is ''Kalgara''. Gold was discovered in the area in the 1880s and was discovered close to the town in 1894 by James Ross and R. McKenzie. The main mines name was Craiggiemore which is situated on the Eastern side of the town.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Morowa Historical Society )〕 By 1896 the local progress association began campaigning for the townsite to be declared. By 1897 lots had been surveyed and the townsite was gazetted in the same year. A police station opened in the town in 1898 but was closed in 1899. Following a drought in the area in 1921 Rod Schenk〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wongatha Native title claim )〕 established the Mount Margaret Aboriginal Mission in 1922. In 1924 many Aboriginal people were forced to came to Mount Morgans for food following another drought and hostility towards them by local station owners. When the Mount Morgans and Linden food depots were closed in 1927, the Aboriginal peoples moved to the mission at Mount Margaret. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Margaret, Western Australia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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