Charters Towers

We passed through Greenvale as it looked interesting a good place for coffee but not to stay we saw everything to see in just a short visit, this was a town set up by a mining company and with the mine now closed it has become all but a ghost town, good place to overnight but not stay so we carried on to Charters Towers. 

A planned stop from the beginning from here we were to head west and on to Hughenden.

We had stayed here last year and Carol was keen on doing some more ghost walks, unfortunately the floods of March and early April, apparently delayed the beginning of the tourist season more so the start of the ghost walks so our stay was shortened, which was easy to do as we had not booked in anywhere until our stay in Longreach.

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We did manage to explore the district with a visit to Ravenswood which is a rural town and locality in the Charters Towers Region. In the 2021 census, the locality of Ravenswood had a population of 297 people.

It is historically and currently a gold mining town. After the discovery of gold in 1868 through to the early 1900s, the township flourished and grew to nearly 5000 residents and boasted 48 hotels. Several historic buildings remain from this period. Due to an industrial strike in 1912 and subsequently World War I, by 1915 mining declined and the town was deserted.

The Imperial Hotel Ravenswood

Today there are still two hotels in town one being the Imperial Hotel, where we decided to have lunch, this hotel like a other buildings in Ravenswood is heritage listed, it was built in 1901, a striking two storey brick hotel in the main street of Ravenswood with lots of original charm, including a custom built bar catering got the main (male) bar and the ladies bar, just this visit was worth the trip to Ravenswood (the meal was icing on the top).

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