Ora Banda Views Traditional Cache
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Overlooking the race track at Ora Banda (Means Gold Band). Apparently there used to be a tennis court somewhere around here too.
Watch out for Traffic.
Gold was discovered in the district in 1893 and the townsite gazetted in 1912. By 1910 there were approximately 2,000 miners and their families living in the area. The town had two stores, two butchers, two bakers, a town hall, dining halls, a post office, a police station, churches, boarding houses and billiards saloons.
The once famous Huntington Mills Bank was situated there. Which in its time it was the largest bank in the Southern Hemisphere. In 1911 the Ora Banda Hotel was constructed.
Water was supplied to the town by dams until the town was connected to the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme from Kalgoorlie in 1933
Today's goldmining companies are still working the same sites discovered nearly a century ago, and on the outskirts of town you will find the Ora Banda State Battery.
Annually in September the population swells for a day for the Ora Banda Day. The race track opposite the historical Ora Banda Inn becomes the focus for many activities.
The town hit the headlines in 2000 when Gypsy Joker, Billy Grierson, was fatally shot while sitting at a camp fire on the old town site. Former Criminal Investigation Bureau chief and Ora Banda hotel owner Don Hancock was suspected of the shooting and his properties were later fire-bombed. The Inn was repaired and is now operational, open most days of the year. www.orabanda.com.au, the gold battery was also bombed but the damage is probably too sever to be repaired. Hancock was later killed in a car bombing in 2001 in Perth, Western Australia in a revenge attack by other Gypsy Jokers.
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