Cloncurry is set for big 150th birthday

Derek Barry
Updated January 16 2017 - 11:36am, first published January 13 2017 - 2:53pm
Cloncurry Mayor Greg Campbell said the town was looking forward to a big year as it celebrates its 150th birthday.
Cloncurry Mayor Greg Campbell said the town was looking forward to a big year as it celebrates its 150th birthday.

In the winter of 1867, Ernest Henry was searching the Cloncurry river looking for grazing land but instead he found copper.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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