Feysville is an abandoned town in the Goldfields-Esperance region of

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. It is situated between

Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie-Boulder (or just Kalgoorlie) is a city in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, located east-northeast of Perth at the end of the Great Eastern Highway. It is referred to as Kalgoorlie–Boulder as the surroundi ...

and

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just off the

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was found in the area in 1895 by the

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Dennis O'Callaghan, which sparked a

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on the Hampton Plains Estate lease. Another prospector and field manager, Captain Henry Fey, established the Feysville mine in 1896, and by 1897 the local progress association began to campaign for the town to be declared. In the same year the town had a debating club and a

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team and the first hotel was constructed in the town. The town was gazetted on 30 June 1898. The population of the town was 97 (90 males and 7 females) in 1898. Land was set aside in 1919 for the development of a

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and court house but neither were ever built. The locality was the terminus of the railway line from Lakeside to White Hope.

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