Einasleigh - Savannahlander - Cairns to Chillagoe, Undara, Forsayth and Cobbold Gorge weekly

This package features the highest level of accommodation and all the tours. You overnight at the Chillagoe Cabins , Cobbold Gorge , and in the Railway ... read more

Cairns

Kuranda

Einasleigh

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Einasleigh

The township of Einasleigh, originally named Copperfield, was laid out in 1900 by the mining warden on a new township reserve established near the Einasleigh Company's copper mine. Although the company had been formed onLy in the previous year, already two hotels, a store, a billiard room, and butcher and baker shops were being built and funds were being collected for a school. The town briefly became the largest population centre in the shire during construction of the Chillagoe Company's Etheridge Railway in the years 1907-10. After the closure of the mine in the 1920s, however, the township almost disappeared and was saved from extinction only by its location on the railway.