After checking out these sites we hit the road for a short trip to Mingela pub. we wanted to grab a photo for our collection and to tick off another Aussie pub in the Australian Bush Pubs book.
Following the Ravenswood gold rush of 1869 it became a railway junction. In 1881 the township of Cunningham was surveyed in it became Ravenswood Junction in 1884.
When the railway line was closed in 1930, the name changed again to Mingela for the original Aboriginal place name of “Ming-illa”, meaning big waterhole.
Sadly Mingela has also seen better days, it’s not quite a ghost town. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 20.