Leonora 

Leonora was discovered and named by John Forrest in 1869. In 1904 the Bulletin reported that: "the main thoroughfare Tower St is well laid out and in every respect a credit to the municipality. The town has kero lamp lights, the footpaths are formed gravelled and kerbed. Although there are the customary iron & wooden structures which are found in the goldfield settlements, the hotels & business establishments have a most imposing apperance constructed of brick. A double decker steam train runs between the busy towns of Leonora & Gwalia".

Leonora~Gwalia is still a busy little outback town very clean and well kept. The Sons of Gwalia mine opened in 1896, closing in 1963 as a decline shalft, many pieces of this historic period remain in the Gwalia Historical Museum and compliment the little Precinct area of 20 of the original old miners camps lovenly restored by the local community. The Sons of Gwalia mine, now opened as an open cut pit in 1984 and reverting back to underground workings in 1995, operates adjacent to the Museum so as to give tourists an insight of historic and modern mining methods.

Leonora is a fully serviced town with a motel, caravan park, two hotels, and two roadhouses. Bus and air transport regularly service the area, to the sealed the area, to the sealed roads town. Many tourists use the Leonora branch to further there travels by going through the centre to Alice or to head North.