Once known as the Queen of the Murchison, Cue is now a small settlement with a population of approximately 300.
It is probable that the first gold found in the area was discovered by Michael John Fitzgerald after an Aborigine named Governor found a 10 oz nugget nearby. Governor is supposed to have presented the nugget to Fitzgerald remarking 'This fellow slug no good, plenty bit fellow slug over there'. It took Fitzgerald and his friend Edward Heffernan ony a few days to find 260 ozs of gold close to what is now the main street.
They told Tom Cue about the find, following which Cue traveled to Nannine to register their claim. Within days of the claim being registered, 400 miners arrived in the area. The town was officially proclaimed within a year and named after Cue. At one time the town had a population of several thousand.
The town contains some of the most grandiose buildings found anywhere in country Western Australia, and a great sense of permanence exists within the town because the miners who lived there in the early 1890s became very wealthy and wished to promote Cue as a place of importance and substance.
Nearby schools
Cue Primary School
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Cue. Photograph © Geerten. Courtesy of Panoramio