Yarraden
Located in Bakanh, Lamalama and Umbindhamu country in the Cook Shire west of Princess Charlotte Bay, the coastal rural locality of Yarraden lies on the east side of the Great Dividing Range. Apart from the eponymous township, the locality includes the abandoned gold mining town of Ebagoolah and the former telegraph station at Musgrave, both of which are heritage listed.
Yarraden township was established to support the Hamilton gold field discovered in 1901.
YARRADEN, a third reefing centre within the Hamilton Goldfield, is on the King River about 3 miles south of Violetville. It was opened about 1902 by Keating. The quartz had at first to be carted 14 miles to Ebagoolah, but subsequently a battery and cyanide plant were erected by Carless. [2] The population was estimated at 100 in 1902. (Robert Logan Jack, Northmost Australia, p. 708)
Station homesteads in the locality include:
Artemis
Astrea
Crystal Vale
Ebagoola
Glen Garland
Lily Vale
Musgrave
New Bamboo
Running Creek
Strathhaven
Strathmay
Violet Vale
Yarraden
