Niagara is an abandoned goldfield town located between Menzies and Leonora. Gold was discovered in 1895, this rapidly populated the area and the government declared it a town site in 1896.
There is a local waterfall and its height is approx 3 meters after a heavy rain, the locals jokingly named it after the American falls. Niagara Dam was built in 1897 by the Railways Department and was originally used for the steam engines.
By 1900 over sixty buildings existed in the town but by 1905 many of the mud brick buildings were derelict, the population declined to 75 and by 1909 the town was abandoned.
There is a camping site around the dam with a few walking trails, a little further up the track you can drive around the land where the town stood, but if you like old grave sites they still exist, I took many photos as I wandered around reading the head stones.
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