Here is a package for budget travellers. Stay at the historic Post Office Hotel in Chillagoe , Goldfields Hotel, Forsayth; and Shared facility air conditioned cabin at the Mt Surprise tourist park. Dinner ... read more
Chillagoe pastoral run was taken up in 1887 by William Atherton, a son of John Atherton. Traces of copper were discovered in the area soon after and a small mining settlement was established on Chillagoe Creek, but it was not until the late 1890s that mining entrepreneurs John Moffat and J.S. Reid secured the necessary capital backing to develop the copper lodes.
