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In 1883 there was a small town of Silverton with 250 people living in it but with in a year there were 3000 people living in Silverton.
In 1886 there was mass exit to the newly discovered silver fields 24km away.
In Silverton's hey day it was a thriving, bustling township with 6 churches, 4 banks, 3 breweries, 10 pubs, a hospital and a
primary school, the Silverton Stock Exchange, the silver age newspaper, a court house, gaol and a host of shops.
Today Silverton is a ghost town with many of the buildings that made Silverton are no more.
Power was finally installed at silverton in 1967. |
