Percy River
A tributary of the Gilbert River. Richard Daintree found gold there in 1869:
In March, 1869, he led a party of prospectors from Mitton's Oak Park Station on the Copperfield River, and with their assistance blazed a track to the scene of his gold discoveries in the Gilbert Ranges. He left the prospectors on payable (alluvial) gold near the junction of the Forty-one Mile Creek with the Gilbert River, while his own party went on and found further payable gold in a tributary of the Gilbert to which he gave the name of the PERCY RIVER. His report is dated 7th April, 1869. (Robert Logan Jack, Northmost Australia, p. 350)
Near its source, Percyville subsequently developed as a gold and copper mining centre.
