Lottah

Lottah is a ghost town in north-eastern Tasmania. It lies just north of the Tasman Highway; the closest settlement is Pyengana and the closest major town is St Helens. Lottah falls within the Break O'Day Council administrative region.

Tin was discovered in Lottah in about 1875.[1] The Anchor Mine became operational in 1880, and the town of Lottah grew up around the mine. At its peak, it had several hundred residents, and community facilities included a school, two hotels, two churches, a bakery, and a football club.[2] Lottah supported a small Chinese community, and one of its more notable residents was Senator Thomas Bakhap, who had a Chinese stepfather and worked as an interpreter.[3] People born in Lottah during its heyday include architecture professor Brian Lewis and RAAF officer Alan Charlesworth.[4] The Anchor Mine closed in 1950, at which point the town's population had been in decline for several decades.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Goulds Country, TAS, Aussie Towns.
  2. 1 2 Lottah: Once-thriving mining town a virtual ghost town in Tasmania's north east, ABC Radio Hobart, 16 March 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  3. ↑ BAKHAP, THOMAS JEROME KINGSTON (1866–1923), The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate
  4. ↑ Charlesworth, Alan Moorehouse (1903–1978) at Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved on 19 October 2017.

Further reading

  • Richardson, Garry (2016), Lottah and the Anchor: the History of a Tin Mine and a Dependent Town, Forty South Publishing

Coordinates: 41°13′15″S 148°01′19″E / 41.22083°S 148.02194°E / -41.22083; 148.02194

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