Finnegan's Camp/ Charleston
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Named for the prospector who discovered gold there in 1871, Finnegan's Camp was renamed Charleston within a year, but faded once the original rush subsided.
Mining on the Etheridge revived, and by the 1890s there were three settlements in the area within a few kilometres of each other: West Charleston (surveyed 1885), Charleston (1891) and Charleston North (1896), with Castleton (1890) about 10 kilometres to the south.
When the branch line from the Cairns-Chillagoe railway was extended from Einasleigh in 1910, the new terminus was briefly named New Charleston. The name was subsequently changed to Forsayth, a misspelling of Commissioner for Railways, James Forsayth Thallon's mother's maiden name.
Sources:
Queensland Places: Forsayth https://queenslandplaces.com.au/forsayth
