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Byerstown

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Byerstown has 133 facts recorded in Dontopedia across 65 references, with 4 live disagreements.

133 facts·105 predicates·65 sources·4 in dispute

Mostly:named after(11), located halfway between(5), town of yesterday no future typical ghost town(3)

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Named AfternamedAfter

  • Johnny Byers[3]all time · 148877065 Wednesday 23 January 1924 Palmer Memories a Journalists Reminiscences
  • Johnny Byers[4]all time · 40214896 Saturday 12 January 1924 Palmer Memories a Journalists Reminiscences
  • Johnny Byers[6]all time · Catchup Archive Downloads Batch 025
  • Johnny Byers[17]all time · 10 Trove Nla Gov Au Newspaper Article 148877065 4bffd202666e
  • Johnny Byers[18]all time · 09 Trove Nla Gov Au Newspaper Article 40214896 18576075d581
  • Johnny Byers[19]all time · 10 Trove Nla Gov Au Newspaper Article 148877065 C422dfb1aedc
  • Johnny Byers[20]all time · 09 Trove Nla Gov Au Newspaper Article 40214896 269d269e6ffd
  • Johnny Byers[28]all time · Harry Harbord Reminiscences Palmer Owen Reynolds Insecure Archive
  • Johnny Byers[31]all time · Reginald Spencer Browne Reynolds Hotel Family Owen Carrier
  • Johnny Byers[32]all time · Reminiscences of Queensland Oconnor Captured Boy Given to Carrier

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Other facts (121)

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121 facts
PredicateValueRef
Located Halfway BetweenCooktown and Maytown on Palmer River[8]
Located Halfway BetweenCooktown and Maytown on Palmer River[23]
Located Halfway BetweenCooktown and Maytown on Palmer River[24]
Located Halfway BetweenCooktown Maytown[29]
Located Halfway BetweenCooktown and Maytown on Palmer River[52]
Town of Yesterday No Future Typical Ghost Townnull[9]
Town of Yesterday No Future Typical Ghost Townnull[27]
Town of Yesterday No Future Typical Ghost Townnull[50]
Described inAustralian Handbook 1903[36]
Described inAustralian Handbook 1903[42]
Described inAustralian Handbook 1903[46]
Has More Goods Deposited ThanRight Hand Branch[2]
Has More Goods Deposited ThanBranch[62]
Transient Town Bark Huts Tents Grog Shantiesnull[9]
Transient Town Bark Huts Tents Grog Shantiesnull[50]
Located onPalmer Goldfield[12]
Located onPalmer River[42]
Town of Yesterday Never Had Future Typical of Many Ghost Towns on Mapsnull[13]
Town of Yesterday Never Had Future Typical of Many Ghost Towns on Mapsnull[51]
Transient Town Existed Only While Gold Lasted Settlement of Bark Huts Tents Primitive Grog Shanties Storesnull[13]
Transient Town Existed Only While Gold Lasted Settlement of Bark Huts Tents Primitive Grog Shanties Storesnull[51]
Administrative Centre ofUpper Palmer[25]
Administrative Centre ofUpper Palmer[26]
Located East ofPalmerville[36]
Located East ofPalmerville[46]
Is75 Km East ofPalmerville[36]
Is75 Km East ofPalmerville[40]
Occupies Elevated Healthy SitePalmer River[36]
Occupies Elevated Healthy Sitetrue[42]
Contrasts WithBusy Times Five Six Years Ago[1]
Distance FromThornborough[1]
Has SeveralChinese Stores[1]
Evaluated As Large Businesstrue[2]
Has Large Amount of Businesstrue[2]
Traveled ThroughGeneral Spencer Brown[4]
Mentioned inTrove Web Search Checkpoint[5]
Supply SourceCooktown Bullock Wagon[7]
Vanished With Gold Seekers Hard to Find Todaynull[9]
Strained by Influx of Disillusioned MinersFacilities Strain[10]
Has No Mail Runningnull[11]
Vanished With Thousands of Gold Seekers When Payable Gold Gone Difficult to Find Today But Pickmarks Cuttings Washouts Remainnull[13]
Has Awaiting Tin Orelarge quantity[14]
Sends Tin Ore toCooktown[15]
Tin Ore Source for CooktownCooktown[16]
PrecedesMaytown[17]
Named After PersonJohnny Byers[17]
Located HalfwayCooktown Maytown[21]
Shipped Tin Ore toCooktown[22]
Vanished With Gold Seekersnull[27]
Supplying Last Alluvial on Palmers Headwaters Panned by Chinesenull[27]
Came From Cooktown by Bullock Wagonnull[27]
Transient Town While Gold Lastednull[27]
Has Several Chinese Storestrue[30]
Contrasts With Pastbusy times five or six years ago[30]
Distance From Thornborougheighty-five miles[30]
New Diggings40miles Sw Cooktown After Johnny Byers{}[33]
Described Asemporium-for-palmer-goldfield[34]
Had1881 Census Population701[34]
Had1933 Census Population263[34]
Had No Census Records Between1881-1933[34]
Handled Three Quarters ofGoods Consumed Palmer Goldfield[34]
Located Distance East ofPalmerville[34]
OccupiesElevated Healthy Site on Palmer River[34]
New Diggings40miles Sw Cooktown Johnny Byersnull[37]
40 Miles Sw Cooktown Johnny Byersnull[38]
40miles Sw Cooktown After Johnny Byersnull[39]
Had Four Hotels Per1882 Handbooknull[40]
Described As Emporium for Palmer Goldfieldnull[40]
Has Census Population1933263[40]
Has Census Population1881701[40]
Handled Three Quarters of Goods Consumednull[40]
Had Two Butchers Per1882 Handbooknull[40]
Described In1903 Australian Handbooknull[40]
Occupies Elevated Healthy Site onPalmer River[40]
Reduced to Two Chinese Stores By1903null[40]
Had Police Barracks Per1882 Handbooknull[40]
Had Blacksmith Per1882 Handbooknull[40]
Had13 Stores Per1882 Handbooknull[40]
Settlement AlongPalmer River[41]
Census Population1881701[42]
Described As Emporium forPalmer Goldfield[42]
Had13 Stores13[42]
Census Population1933263[42]
Located75km East ofPalmerville[42]
Handled Three Quarters Goodstrue[42]
Had Two Butcherstrue[42]
Had Blacksmithtrue[42]
Had Four Hotelstrue[42]
Had Police Barrackstrue[42]
Had Chinee Township Near JunctionBlackfella Creek Spear Creek[43]
Had Chinee Townshipnear Blackfella Creek Palmer junction[44]
Lacks Mail Serviceno mail running from Byerstown[45]
Serves As Emporium forPalmer Goldfield[46]
Sprang Up athead of main branch of Palmer and Normanby Rivers, wet 1874-5[47]
Had Six or Seven Hotelsnull[48]
Transient Town While Gold Lasted Bark Huts Tents Grog Shanties Storesnull[49]
Vanished With Gold Seekers Hard to Find Today But Pickmarks Cuttings Washouts Remainnull[49]
Supplied Miners at Palmer Headwaters Last Alluvialnull[50]
Spatial Relation toPalmer Gold Field[53]
Connected by Road toHodgkinson[54]

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no mail running from Byerstown
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ex:palmer-goldfield
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ex:palmerville
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ex:australian-handbook-1903
sprangUpAtrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/kirkman-1984-chinese-north-queensland-thesis-fulltext-chunk-02
head of main branch of Palmer and Normanby Rivers, wet 1874-5
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null
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null
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null
townOfYesterdayNoFutureTypicalGhostTownrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archive-007-www-chapelhill-homeip-net-familyhistory-other-queenslandhist-1dfca0c567e5
null
suppliedMinersAtPalmerHeadwatersLastAlluvialrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archive-007-www-chapelhill-homeip-net-familyhistory-other-queenslandhist-1dfca0c567e5
null
transientTownBarkHutsTentsGrogShantiesrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archive-007-www-chapelhill-homeip-net-familyhistory-other-queenslandhist-1dfca0c567e5
null
transientTownExistedOnlyWhileGoldLastedSettlementOfBarkHutsTentsPrimitiveGrogShantiesStoresrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/atherton-history-thornborough-kingsborough-wason-reynolds-goldfield-context-78c349529fad
null
townOfYesterdayNeverHadFutureTypicalOfManyGhostTownsOnMapsrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/atherton-history-thornborough-kingsborough-wason-reynolds-goldfield-context-78c349529fad
null
locatedHalfwayBetweenrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/downloaded-archive/douglas-heritage-study-5402ebb5a605
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historicalContextMineralFieldrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-0533-eid-19452
null
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ex:nmp-event-19451
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ex:palmer
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null
classifiedAsMineralFieldrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1061-eid-25977
null
usedAsLocationProxyrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1061-eid-25977
ex:dickson-and-carswells-cattle-camp
hasLocationUncertaintyrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1055-eid-25770
direction of garden not specified
locatedInPastoralDistrictrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-1055-eid-25770
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isPresentDayLocationrosie-reynolds-massacre-connection/nmp-events-export-20260508193632/row-2411-eid-64728
ex:lakeland
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true
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ex:queensland-colony
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ex:Settlement
labelfrontier-massacres/10619
Byerstown
locatedBetweenfrontier-massacres/10619
Between Byerstown and the Palmer Gold Field
locatedNearfrontier-massacres/10619
ex:palmer-gold-field
hasTrackTofrontier-massacres/10619
ex:cooktown
hasTrackFromfrontier-massacres/10619
ex:uhrstown

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      # Frontier conflict event: Attack on Europeans/others - Dan Collins 'within sight of Mr Uhr's camp', Palmer River, south of Maytown (20 October 1875) Source dataset: University of Newcastle, "Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia 1788-1

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