[2] The location of the original townsite is on Kingswood Street, which runs at the rear of the Widgiemooltha Roadhouse.

In the 1890s gold was discovered in the area and the townsite was gazetted in 1897 as Widgemooltha, the spelling being amended to the current form in 1944.

The goldfields around the area were home to the Golden Eagle nugget, which was found in 1931 by Jim Larcombe.

It weighed 1,136 ounces (32.2 kg), the biggest nugget found in the history of Western Australian goldfields.

[6] The find sparked a gold fever and shortly afterward 1,000 men were working the field unearthing other reefs and nuggets.