Halford's Place Traditional Cache
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The Halford family is well known for its trek from South Australia to Kalgoorlie. William Halford, his wife Elisabeth, with their sons and daughters set out from Mintabying in South Australia in July 1903 with about 200 cattle. They were delayed at Fowlers Bay for 10 months because of drought. After many difficulties and over 1800km of travelling they arrived at Bulong at 2am on christmas Day 1904. It is said that they did not loose any cattle in the whole treck.
Credo Station was held by the Halford family for many years. in June 1903 and arrived at Bulong near Kalgoorlie in December 1904. Places they passed through included Fowler's Bay, Colona, Eucla, Mundrabilla, Madura, Twilight Cove, Cocklebiddy, Balladonia, Karonie and Randalls.
Under the leadership of William Henry Halford, the family set up the Overland Dairy near Kalgoorlie; started running cattle at Binyarinyinna (Binyarinyinna Rock is some distance south-south-east of Kalgoorlie on the edge of Lake Cowan) and started acquiring pastoral leases. It seems they set up a homestead at Black Flag with Credo as an outstation.
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