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Cultural Heritage
Background Study
October 2009

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Preamble
The Sunshine Coast Regional Council has identified its vision for the region to be “Australia’s
most sustainable region – vibrant, green, diverse”. In this current Council term (up to 2012) and
in partnership with the community, the new Council will begin the challenging task of delivering
on its vision.
A key concept that must inform all decision making to deliver on that vision is that of “carrying
capacity”, defined briefly as “the population that can be supported indefinitely by its supporting
systems”. Over the page, you will find a discussion of all the elements that need to be
considered in ensuring a sustainable carrying capacity for the region.
A key element in that task will be the production of a new planning scheme, with its capacity to
provide for new development that meets our requirements for economic, environmental and
social sustainability.
As the first step in beginning that process, Council has prepared a Statement of Proposals
outlining the key directions for the new planning scheme as well as a number of draft policy
documents for your comment as listed below. We would welcome your views on the policy
directions outlined, and any omissions that should also be considered:
DRAFT POLICY DOCUMENTS FOR COMMUNITY COMMENT
Affordable Living Discussion Paper - Outlines Council’s proposed strategies to improve
affordability on the Sunshine Coast.
Biodiversity Strategy - Identifies Council’s strategies to protect and enhance biodiversity
on the Sunshine Coast.
Canelands Discussion Paper - Outlines Council’s intentions for the future use of
Canelands on the Sunshine Coast.
Climate Change Strategy - Outlines Council’s strategies to respond to climate change
and peak oil on the Sunshine Coast.
Cultural Heritage Background Study - Provides information as the basis for the
preparation of a Cultural Heritage Strategy.
Flooding and Stormwater Management Discussion Paper - Identifies Council’s
intended principles for managing flooding and stormwater management.
Housing Needs Assessment Background Study - Provides information on existing and
future housing needs for the Sunshine Coast.
Open Space Discussion Paper - Outlines a framework for the preparation of an open
space strategy for the Sunshine Coast.
Rural Futures Background Study - Identifies Council’s intentions for the use of rural
lands.
Rural Planning Background Study - Provides background information on rural areas and
activities.
Statement of Proposals - Outlines Council’s key intended directions for the new planning
scheme.
Sustainable Transport Discussion Paper - Provides a framework for the preparation of
a Sustainable Transport Strategy.
Waterways and Coastal Foreshores Management Discussion Paper - Outlines
Council’s strategies for managing natural waterways, coastal foreshore areas and
constructed waterbodies.
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Carrying Capacity: the population that can be supported indefinitely by its supporting
systems.
In ecological terms, the carrying capacity of an ecosystem is the size of the population that can
be supported indefinitely upon the available resources and services of that ecosystem. Living
within the limits of an ecosystem depends on three factors:
the amount of resources available in the ecosystem,
the size of the population, and
the amount of resources each individual is consuming.
A simple example of carrying capacity is the number of people who could survive in a lifeboat
after a shipwreck. Their survival depends on how much food and water they have, how much
each person eats and drinks each day, and how many days they are afloat. If the lifeboat
made it to an island, how long the people survived would depend upon the food and water
supply on the island and how wisely they used it. A small desert island will support far fewer
people than a large continent with abundant water and good soil for growing crops.
In this example, food and water are the natural capital of the island. Living within the carrying
capacity means using those supplies no faster than they are replenished by the island's
environment: using the 'interest' income of the natural capital. A community that is living off the
interest of its community capital is living within the carrying capacity. A community that is
degrading or destroying the ecosystem on which it depends is using up its community capital
and is living unsustainably.
Equally important to community sustainability is living within the carrying capacity of the
community's human, social and built capital. Carrying capacity is much harder to measure for
these types of capital, but the basic concept is the same -- are the different types of capital
being used up faster than they are being replenished? For example:
A community that allows its children to be poorly educated, undernourished, and poorly
housed is eroding its human capital.
A community that allows the quality of its social interactions to decline through lack of
trust, respect, and tolerance is eroding its social capital.
A community that allows its buildings, roads, parks, power facilities, water facilities, and
waste processing capability to decay is eroding its built capital. Additionally, a
community that is creating built capital without considering the future maintenance of
that capital is setting itself up for eventual decay.
So, in the context of sustainability, carrying capacity is the size of the population that can be
supported indefinitely upon the available resources and services of supporting natural, social,
human, and built capital.
http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/Sustainability/KeyTermCarryingCap.html
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Table of Contents
1.0 INTRODUCTION........................................................................................................................1
1.1 Purpose..................................................................................................................................1
1.2 Regional Context ...................................................................................................................2
2.0 CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ITS VALUES.............................................................................4
2.1 Defining Cultural Heritage......................................................................................................4
2.2 Understanding Who We Are, Where We Came From and Where We Are Going ................4
2.3 Remembering Past People, Events and Eras .......................................................................4
2.4 Aesthetic value ......................................................................................................................4
2.5 Sense of Belonging and Identity............................................................................................5
2.6 Contributes to the Local Character........................................................................................5
2.7 Lessons from the Past ...........................................................................................................5
2.8 Empowering the Community to Interpret and Shape Their Culture.......................................5
2.9 Creating Opportunities for the Community to Come Together..............................................5
2.10 Supporting Economic Development and Tourism .................................................................6
3.0 POLICY AND LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK...........................................................................6
3.1 Overview................................................................................................................................6
3.2 International ...........................................................................................................................6
3.3 Federal...................................................................................................................................7
3.4 State.......................................................................................................................................7
3.5 Local Government Context....................................................................................................9
4.0 CURRENT POSITION .............................................................................................................13
4.1 Built Heritage Places ...........................................................................................................13
4.2 Existing Historical Character Areas .....................................................................................15
4.3 Aboriginal Cultural Heritage.................................................................................................15
4.4 Partnerships and Community Engagement.........................................................................16
4.5 Collections ...........................................................................................................................16
4.6 Cemeteries...........................................................................................................................17
5.0 KEY CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE SUNSHINE COAST ...........................19
6.0 CULTURAL HERITAGE STRATEGY - STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK....................................22
6.1 Future Policy Framework.....................................................................................................22
6.2 Vision ...................................................................................................................................23
6.3 Outcome Areas....................................................................................................................23
6.4 Principles .............................................................................................................................24
6.5 Proposed strategies.............................................................................................................24
7.0 WHERE TO FROM HERE .......................................................................................................27
8.0 CONCLUSION .........................................................................................................................28
9.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY......................................................................................................................29
APPENDIX A – CITATIONS.................................................................................................................30
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Appendix
Appendix A: Identified cultural heritage places
Maps
Map 1: Regional context (Localities and Landscape Features)
Map 2: Distribution of State and Local Historical Cultural Heritage Places – Identified in
the existing planning schemes
Images
Image 1: Cobbs Camp, Woombye
Image 2: Mudjimba Island
Image 3: Kin Kin Country Life Hotel
Image 4: Anzac Park - Memorial Place Kings Beach Headland
Image 5: Bankfoot House
Figures
Figure 1: Policy framework flowchart
Figure 2: Culture Heritage Management Outcome Areas
Figure 3: The Cultural Strategy Implementation flowchart
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1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Purpose
This background study proposes a strategic direction for protecting and managing the
region’s cultural heritage including built environment, character, Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal,
streetscape and landscape heritage. This background study looks at the current situation
with cultural heritage in the broadest sense. The background study makes reference to
known data and existing Council activities that provide a community link to the Sunshine
Coast’s heritage. This community link incorporates historic homes, collections in art
galleries, museums, community libraries, movable heritage, community spaces, community
and individual memories, and related projects and initiatives, these are the focus of a
separate and broader cultural planning document under development within this Council.
This background study has been prepared for the purposes of discussion and community
feedback and to inform the development of a Cultural Strategy. The strategy will provide a
framework for managing the Sunshine Coast’s cultural heritage and inform protective
measures within the proposed new Sunshine Coast planning scheme.
This background paper is formulated within the context of the South East Queensland
Regional Plan 2009-2031 and Council’s Corporate Plan 2009; in particular it goes towards
fulfilling a requirement of the Corporate Plan to: “7.2.1 Develop and implement a heritage
strategy”.
The overall approach of this study is consistent with other proposed environmental,
economic and social strategies under development. Each prioritise the building of
environmental, economic and social resilience within the Sunshine Coast in the face of
population growth and climate change and are geared towards balancing demands
associated with development growth, economic needs and social wellbeing of the
community, and maintenance of a healthy and sustainable environment.
The study identifies the range of legislative obligations and responsibilities around cultural
heritage management and the roles that the Council undertakes in recognising, promoting
and protecting cultural heritage in conjunction with the community. This study reviews
existing cultural heritage policy and how the three former councils dealt with the issue and
reviews the legislative framework for cultural heritage on the Sunshine Coast. In recognition
of the legislative framework and the obligations that come from them the need for a more
coordinated approach to cultural heritage management is timely. The study promotes a
collaborative approach designed to maximise positive outcomes across the Sunshine Coast
and seeks to foster community and industry partnerships and engagement. This paper aims
to build upon previous work and achievements and achieve a range of outcomes to protect,
manage and celebrate our cultural heritage.
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1.2 Regional Context
It is perhaps in the Sunshine Coast landscape that our culture can be most easily glimpsed.
The beaches, rural backdrop, hinterland, waterways, forested areas and viewlines, create
this distinguishing landscape. These natural features are part of what makes the Sunshine
Coast unique. The Sunshine Coast’s landscape variability ensures there are many cultures
within the Sunshine Coast creating a diversity of communities and cultural interests. The
neighbourhoods dotted along our coastline, the distinctive ‘Queenslander’ as part of the rural
landscape and the heritage character of hinterland spread throughout forested and
agricultural areas contribute to each localities sense of place and identity.
Cultural heritage is interwoven into the fabric of our everyday life. It is all around us in the
stories that have become our history. It is the story of how the Glass House Mountains were
formed, the role of our rivers, the function of large open space and urban breaks and why
the coastal areas are so important. It is the small encounters of our history that we come
across as we visit our rural towns, join in community celebrations and walk through our
national parks that remind us of our past.
Cultural heritage is central to the character, identity, liveability and prosperity of the Sunshine
Coast. It is a fundamental element of the region’s social and sense of community in an
environment of rapid growth and change. Cultural heritage plays a major role in the
desirability of the Sunshine Coast as a tourist destination. Character and identity values of
the hinterland and beaches are key elements of the region’s tourism success.
Acknowledging and celebrating the region’s cultural heritage, through its diverse landscape,
culture, history, stories and significant places and objects needs to be coordinated in a way
that promotes and encourages interaction, interpretation and activity between residents, as
well as visitors.
The Regional Context Map 1 below provides a topographical view of the localities and
features within the Sunshine Coast.
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Map 1: Regional Context (Localities and Landscape Features)
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2.0 CULTURAL HERITAGE AND ITS VALUES
2.1 Defining Cultural Heritage
Cultural heritage is part of our everyday world. It is a view to our past and a path for our
future. It surrounds us and enriches our psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. It
provides connection to community and the landscape around us. Cultural heritage can be
broadly defined as the qualities and attributes possessed by places and objects that have
aesthetic, historic, scientific, cultural or social value for past, present or future generations.
No longer seen as just monumental remains of cultures, heritage as a concept has gradually
come to include intangible heritage, such as stories, memories, oral histories, social
customs, values and practices, aesthetic and spiritual beliefs, artistic expression, language
and other aspects of human activity.
Cultural heritage is not static but constantly evolving as technologies, processes, practices,
aesthetic tastes, and other elements of society change, including socio economic and
political environments. The significance of a place and object can increase because of its
rarity or special associations with a person or group of persons, or it serving as surviving
evidence of a person, period in time or an event. Its significance can be reduced by its
destruction, alteration, or loss of connection to or appreciation for what made it significant.
2.2 Understanding Who We Are, Where We Came From and Where We Are Going
The values associated with cultural heritage are shaped by the places that we live. These
places help us recognise where we come from and who we aspire to become in the future.
They become over time part of who we are and are enriched with social history, tradition,
ways of living, beliefs, family history, memories, stories and objects that contribute to our
past, contemporary and future cultural heritage.
2.3 Remembering Past People, Events and Eras
Protecting cultural heritage can help a community remember, providing surviving evidence of
a person, period in time or an event. A place may be of significance because it reminds
people of a special moment (good and bad), because it recognises lives, history, culture or
for its connections with the development of a district or for its cultural spiritual or social
connections. Cemeteries offer a significant record of the settlement patterns and growth of a
community. The graves and monuments can provide an important view into the past about a
community and its residents.
2.4 Aesthetic value
The aesthetic value of cultural heritage comes from people experiencing or appreciating the
landscape, buildings, places or objects around them and includes visual and non-visual
appreciation. Visual may include consideration of the form, scale, colour, texture and
material of the place or object. Non-visual can include the associated smells and sounds.
The emotions from the aesthetic value of a place have a strong impact on residents and
visitors.
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2.5 Sense of Belonging and Identity
Cultural heritage encompasses not only the tangible built aspects of our environment but
also the intangible social aspects of how people live, work and play together. Strong,
functional, connected communities provide wide ranging social and economic benefits to the
region. Having a sense of belonging to and identifying with a place is essential for individuals
and how they interact within and contribute to a healthy community. These values are not
immediately shared or understood by new comers but are developed over time. They can be
increased by involvement in festivals and other community events, volunteering and learning
more about an area, its history and an individual’s place within that history.
A population’s sense of community is forever evolving as new people come to the area,
bringing with them their own ideas, cultures and interests. Community groups that look after
our cultural heritage and participate in the sharing of knowledge help create community
identity. This also helps develop social capital and wellbeing that increases a community’s
resilience and to work collaboratively in times of change and hardship.
2.6 Contributes to the Local Character
Significant places within the community, including buildings, landscapes, landmarks and
streetscapes distinguish one location from another, are integral to their attraction, character
and identity and provide a sense of place to those that live there.
Local character is also represented in our natural history through an area’s endemic flora
and fauna, its stories from local identities and collections and historical artefacts.
2.7 Lessons from the Past
Enabling the past to teach us how to deal with the future can shape our destiny. Much of our
local history has been shaped by mistakes that seemed like a good idea at the time. By
being educated and aware, we come to recognise, understand and learn from difficult stories
and events and perhaps do things better in the future. Importantly, we can also acknowledge
and celebrate our achievements and learn from the many positives from the past.
2.8 Empowering the Community to Interpret and Shape Their Culture
Council has a role to play in facilitating community engagement and creating programs and
strategies that empower the community to shape their culture and to be involved in decision
making regarding the protection and management of their cultural heritage.
2.9 Creating Opportunities for the Community to Come Together
Cultural heritage brings people together. Community celebrations and cultural activities such
as festivals, stories from local identities, displays and special events, encourage participation
and cooperation within the community. Volunteers make a vital contribution to the
community and heritage protection and benefit from sharing their common interests and
aspirations with others through museums, galleries and other activities to share collections
of historical information.
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2.10 Supporting Economic Development and Tourism
Our vast and varied natural landscapes, built heritage and local character of our towns not
only reveal our culture, they also form the basis of our tourism business and other industries
and investments and reflect how we see and are seen by the world.
Cultural heritage values play a major role in the desirability of the Sunshine Coast as a
tourist destination. Tourism is a major industry for our region. The Sunshine Coast has a
competitive advantage over other tourist destinations with its unique cultural landscape
qualities and characteristics. Areas with extremely high cultural heritage values, such as the
Glass House Mountains cultural landscape and surrounding hinterland have the potential to
provide distinctive cultural heritage experiences.
The first draft of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Nature Based Tourism Plan was published
by Tourism Queensland and Tourism Sunshine Coast in 2009. The study found that the
character and identity values of the hinterland are key to its success as a tourism
destination, with the most appealing aspects considered to be the “relaxed/peaceful/quiet
atmosphere” and “natural beauty/environment and scenery/views”. Recognition, preservation
and enhancement of the unique indigenous and post settlement cultural heritage assets of
our region are essential if we are to truly capitalise on our potential as a unique tourist
destination.
3.0 POLICY AND LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK
3.1 Overview
Cultural heritage overlaps many subject matters within the current statutory framework. The
State’s heritage setting has largely been divided into specific areas: built environment
character, Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal and landscape heritage, each dealt with separately.
Although there are many instances of overlap: such as the archaeological site at Mill Point
Lake Cootharaba that has European and Aboriginal heritage significance. There is
increasing recognition for the need for a more coordinated approach to cultural heritage
management. The recent inclusion of the former Environment Protection Agency and the
former Department of Natural Resources under the joint banner of the Department of
Environment and Resource Management go towards facilitating this coordination.
The following provides an outline of the current policy and legislative framework, in the
context of this study, at the International, State and local level but is not intended to be an
exhaustive listing of all legislation as it applies to cultural heritage.
3.2 International
The Burra Charter is a charter established by the International Council on Monuments and
Sites (ICOMOS) for places of cultural significance, to which Australia subscribes. It provides
a guiding philosophy for the care of heritage places in Australia and identifies principles,
processes and practices to be observed in the conservation of heritage sites.
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3.3 Federal
Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999)
This Act provides for the management and protection of Australia's natural, historic and
Indigenous heritage places that are of outstanding national heritage value to the Australian
nation, including World Heritage properties. The EPBC Act (1999) is administered by the
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. The Act states how and when
an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) should be carried out for a development proposal
requiring that EIS’s include historic and Indigenous heritage surveys and reports.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act (1984)
This Act aims to preserve and protect from injury or desecration areas and objects in
Australia that are of particular significance to Aboriginals in accordance with Aboriginal
tradition. This Act is administered by the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage
and the Arts. This Act is currently in review. It is intended for use only where state or territory
laws and processes prove to be ineffective.
Native Title Act (1993)
This Act provides for the recognition and protection of native title and establishes ways in
which future dealings affecting native title may proceed, sets standards for those dealings,
and establishes a mechanism for determining claims to native title. Native Title holders have
the right to negotiate for the protection of heritage places over which Native Title applies.
This Act is administered by the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the
Arts. Also the Australian Government Attorney-General’s Department manages a range of
consultation and coordination mechanisms within the native title system.
3.4 State
Queensland Native Title Act (1993)
This Act confirms certain native title rights in accordance with the Commonwealth Native
Title Act and provides for consistency with standards set by that Act for future dealings
affecting native title. The Act is administered by Department of Environment and Resource
Management.
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (2003)
This Act seeks to provide effective recognition, protection and conservation of Aboriginal
cultural heritage. The Act mandates a duty of care requiring that all persons ‘who carry out
an activity to take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure the activity does not
harm Aboriginal cultural heritage’. Onus is placed on the developer/owner of the land to
report any areas of Aboriginal cultural significant and to not harm them in any way. The Act
specifies when cultural heritage management plans are required to be prepared in
accordance with strict guidelines. These guidelines include liaising with the designated
‘Aboriginal Party’ as per the Native Title Act. Department of Environment and Resource
Management (DERM) administer the Act and the Aboriginal Party carries out the
assessment. DERM also holds a register of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage sites. Aboriginal
cultural heritage must be listed on this register in order for the legislation to be enforced.
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Queensland Heritage Act (1992)
This Act provides for the conservation of Queensland’s cultural heritage by protecting all
places and areas on the Queensland Heritage Register. The Act also provides instruction for
local governments to providing for the maintenance of a register of places of cultural heritage
significance and by regulating the development of such places through appropriate powers
of protection and enforcement, including the declaring of protected areas surrounding
protected cultural relics and areas of archaeological significance. Any person may nominate
a place for entry on the Heritage Register. To enter a place on the register the Heritage
Council must be satisfied that the place is of cultural heritage significance and that the place
satisfies one or more criteria as set out in the Act. A recent amendment to the Act
establishes a new category of archaeological places to provide stronger provisions for
protecting places with the potential for containing significant archaeological artefacts. For
development approval of proposals for these state registered places, an application must go
to the Queensland Heritage Council. The Queensland Heritage Council is structured as an
independent body of 12 members. This Act is administered by the Department of
Environment and Resource Management.
Public Records Act (2002)
This Act provides a regulatory framework for the management of public records, including
the creation, preservation and use of public records. The Act aligns access to public records
with the principles of the Freedom of Information Act 1992. Local governments are
responsible and accountable for ensuring that arrangements are made for the proper
management and preservation of any records in its possession. This includes issues that are
of a sensitive nature, such as culturally significant landmarks and sites. The Act also
provides the authority for the State Archivist to establish and manage repositories and other
facilities to store, preserve, exhibit and provide access to public records and other materials.
The Act is administered by Queensland State Archives.
Libraries Act (1988)
This Act aims to contribute to the cultural, social and intellectual development of all
Queenslanders. This Act enables a local government to establish, maintain and conduct a
library facility as a function of local government. It encourages local libraries to facilitate the
collection, preservation and promotion of content relevant to Queensland and to make this
information accessible. The Library Board who represents the State and is appointed by the
Queensland Governor in Council administers the Act.
Integrated Planning Act (1997)
This Act provides for the overall statutory planning framework for Queensland. Among other
things, it sets out what is needed in local planning schemes. It identifies valuable features as
a ‘core matter’ that must be addressed in planning schemes, which include:
‘(c) areas or places of Cultural heritage significance (such as areas or places of indigenous
cultural significance, or aesthetic, architectural, historical, scientific, social or technological
significance, to the present generation or past or future generations)’.
The Integrated Planning Act (1997) is administered by the Department Infrastructure and
Planning.
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South East Queensland Regional Plan (2009-2031)
The purpose of this plan is to manage regional growth and change and to set out strategic
policy, actions and regulatory provisions for addressing emerging regional growth
management issues. It includes the following principles relating to cultural heritage and
identifies specific policies and programs for each:
Section 3.6 Landscape Heritage: - Recognise and manage landscape heritage to maintain
character, culture and sense of place.
Section 6.5 Cultural Heritage, Arts and Cultural Development: - Identify, protect and
manage the region’s unique cultural heritage, including historic places, landscapes of
significance and traditional Aboriginal culturally significant places, and support the arts and
cultural development through the planning and provision of cultural infrastructure and
spaces.
Section 7.1 Traditional Owner Engagement: - Recognise Traditional Owners as
stakeholders, involve them in planning, and understand and respect their relationship with
the land, sea and natural resources.
Section 7.4 Cultural Values: - Recognise, protect and conserve traditional Aboriginal cultural
values in land, water and natural resources, and historical or contemporary Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander values in places.
The South East Queensland Regional Plan is administered by the Department of
Infrastructure and Planning.
3.5 Local Government Context
Statutory Requirements
Local government has a range of statutory obligations to carry out in relation to cultural
heritage, including:
Assessing development applications that involve cultural heritage values;
Addressing the protection of cultural heritage places and values within a planning
scheme;
Maintaining and evolving a ‘living’ heritage register of locally significant historical
heritage places;
Regulation and enforcement in relation to development compliance;
Adhering to duty of care obligations and guidelines for the protection of Aboriginal
Heritage when carrying out development or activities;
Undertaking cultural heritage surveys; and
Maintaining accurate public records.
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Other Cultural Heritage Roles
Other cultural heritage roles this Council undertakes includes:
Preserving and maintaining collections;
Maintaining cultural heritage places on Council owned land;
Providing heritage information and advice;
Coordinating and supporting education programs through the libraries, galleries,
museums, heritage walks, exhibitions and interpretive signage;
Events management and participation;
Curating art exhibitions with heritage components;
Administering heritage levies;
Coordinating heritage awards, heritage walks and other public recognition
programs;
Managing established cemeteries;
Administering heritage grants;
Coordinating memorials, monuments and plaques;
Participating in Native Title processes and determinations;
Involving the community; and
Educating staff on cultural heritage.
Sunshine Coast Regional Council - Corporate Plan 2009-2014
The Sunshine Coast as Australia’s most sustainable region –
vibrant, green, diverse
This document lays the foundations for the future of the Sunshine Coast. The Corporate
Plan also reflects Council’s commitment to maintaining the unique identity and character of
our coastal centres and hinterland towns by respecting their history and the views of the
local residents. Primary linkages to the Corporate Plan include the following Emerging
Priorities and Strategies:
3.3 A creative and artistic region
3.3.1 Assess the regions cultural facilities and activities, research future needs and
develop an arts and cultural strategy
3.3.2 Provide and facilitate local and regional arts and cultural facilities and programs
within the community
5.2 Strong community groups and networks
5.2.4 Work with the Indigenous community to promote reconciliation
5.3 A sense of identity and belonging
5.3.3 Support community and neighbourhood celebrations, events and local festivals
5.3.4 Facilitate social history programs to increase awareness of our local history
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7.2 The Heritage and character of our communities is protected
7.2.1 Develop and implement a heritage strategy
7.2.2 Protect heritage places, values and significant regional landscapes in the
planning scheme
7.2.3 Better understand and fulfil council’s obligations to protect Indigenous cultural
heritage
Existing Planning Schemes
The three existing planning schemes provide a policy basis for the new planning scheme
being developed for the Sunshine Coast and have some consistencies in approach in terms
of built heritage and character protection.
The Noosa Plan (2006)
The Noosa Plan aims to protect built heritage sites and character areas, and development
requires assessment against the Cultural Heritage Overlay Code. Heritage sites and
character areas are depicted on overlay maps for each locality and the 65 identified sites are
listed in Schedule 3 and Noosa Plan. The code also provides guidance on when buildings
can be demolished or relocated under limited circumstances and encourages the adaptive
reuse of buildings for alternative purposes. The Noosa Plan does not cover Aboriginal
cultural heritage.
Maroochy Plan (2000)
The Maroochy Plan recognises the importance of conserving cultural heritage and aims to
protect places having historical, townscape and Aboriginal cultural heritage value. It seeks to
identify and assess as part of development proposals cultural heritage places and values
that might be impacted. Assessable development on or adjacent to cultural heritage places
is assessed against criteria in the Heritage Conservation Code and Indigenous Cultural
Heritage Code and there are requirements for cultural heritage reports to be completed.
Schedule 7 provides a register of Places of Cultural Heritage significance which includes
housing on the Blackall Range. Section 7.4 lists a number of places with townscape
significance and nominates all buildings within the Shire that were built before 1945 as
having townscape significance. The code also includes specific requirements for buildings
adjacent to heritage sites and outlines circumstances when demolition may be considered.
Section 7.2 lists a number of landscape features that could potentially hold Aboriginal
cultural heritage, such as land within 100m of a waterway.
Caloundra City Plan (2004)
The Caloundra City Plan has a framework for the protection of built heritage and townscape
character. It also includes protective provisions for Aboriginal heritage values. The Cultural
Heritage and Character Areas Code provides the relevant criteria for assessing development
and Tables 7.1-7.3 list the heritage places and character areas to be protected and these
are depicted on overlay maps. There are 76 built heritage sites and 2 character areas listed.
The code also has requirements for development adjoining built heritage sites and incentives
for the retention of character buildings within character areas. The code also requires that
“Development does not impair the culturally significant attributes of a heritage place of
Indigenous cultural significance whether listed in Table 7.2 or otherwise identified by
Indigenous people for whom the place is significant”.
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The City Plan also includes a Scenic Amenity Code which seeks to protect areas of scenic
amenity.
Sunshine Coast Growth Management Position Paper (2008)
The Sunshine Coast Council recently prepared a Growth Management Position Paper to
inform the State government's review of the South East Queensland Regional Plan. It is a
key policy document for the region that has built on the previous work completed by the
preceding councils of the Sunshine Coast. It outlines the growth management philosophies
for the Sunshine Coast and this includes recognition for the importance that the region's
unique landscape and scenic values, inter-urban breaks and broader cultural heritage play in
shaping its physical character and identity, lifestyles and tourism experiences. It further
recognises that these values go towards distinguishing the Sunshine Coast as an
ecologically sustainable subregion. The position paper demonstrates ongoing commitment to
cultural heritage management through various strategies.
Section 4.3 Open Space Strategy, states:
O2 Healthy and resilient ecosystems will be maintained as these systems contribute to
environmental, lifestyle, cultural and amenity values and distinguish the Sunshine Coast as
an ecologically sustainable sub-region;
O3 The overall form, pattern and structure of urban development supports open space
values by preserving the physical character, presence, appearance, and experience of the
Sunshine Coast’s diverse landscape, cultural heritage and scenic amenity
This theme is continued in Section 4.7 of the Growth Management Position Paper where the
following statements are made in the Regional Landscape Strategy:
RL1 The sub-region’s natural values and resources are protected to enhance biodiversity
values, economic prosperity, public health and lifestyle;
RL4 The protection of the Sunshine Coast’s diverse landscape, cultural heritage and scenic
amenity values preserves the physical character, appearance, and experience of the
Regional Landscape and in turn the lifestyle and tourism reliant on these values.
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4.0 CURRENT POSITION
Sunshine Coast Regional Council has been committed to cultural heritage management
through the three former Councils. The three former councils’ response to elements of
current international, federal and state legislation relating to cultural heritage has been
varied. A range of strategic documents highlight outcomes for protection of cultural heritage
values as part of their overall strategy direction and the three planning schemes provide
certain statutory controls. Currently a cultural heritage levy exists in the northern region of
the Sunshine Coast.
Further improvement can be made to protect our cultural heritage and this background study
is a step towards identifying issues of cultural heritage that will be further investigated as part
of the future Cultural Strategy to be developed.
4.1 Built Heritage Places
The three existing planning schemes provide some consistencies in approach in terms of
built heritage and character protection (refer to Section 3.5) but are in need of review as part
of the new planning scheme preparation. Map 2 below shows the distribution of registered
heritage places across the Sunshine Coast. Work is soon to commence on reviewing the
heritage register of places listed within the Sunshine Coast for the purposes of
recommending existing and proposed sites for the new planning scheme. Appendix A
provides a list of identified heritage places within the three current planning schemes and the
State heritage register.
Image 1: Cobbs Camp, Woombye
This image of Cobbs Camp, Woombye reminds us of the past and its historical events. The
Cobb & Co accommodation site was halfway between Brisbane and Gympie and established
in the late 1800’s.
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Map 2: Distribution of State and Local Historical Cultural Heritage Places – Identified
in the existing planning schemes
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4.2 Existing Historical Character Areas
The Sunshine Coast’s distinct localities have special qualities of place that are attractive to
residents and visitors. The historical development of the various townships has helped
create their distinctive characters. Within many of the region’s rural townships, the buildings
and architectural features, significantly contribute to the local character and afford strong
heritage connections that are valued by the people who live there and those who come to
visit. Character or townscape areas are protected within the planning schemes within parts
of the towns of Cooroy, Pomona, Cooran, Buderim, Palmwoods, Woombye, Yandina,
Eumundi, Kenilworth, Nambour and Landsborough.
4.3 Aboriginal Cultural Heritage
Currently within Council there is a level of data and information that has been accumulated
by the 3 former Councils in relation to Aboriginal cultural heritage that exists on land owned
and managed by Council and privately owned land. This existing information in most
instances is very anecdotal and includes both landscape places and sites on the Sunshine
Coast. In respect for the Traditional Owners of the Sunshine Coast it is intended that this
information in conjunction with the Traditional Owners be used to inform the development of
relevant protocols and processes to protect and enhance these highly valued heritage
places.
Together with Moreton Bay Regional, Somerset Regional and Brisbane City Councils, this
Council is jointly participating in the resolution of native title claims within the region.
Negotiations between this group and the Jinibara People are focused on reaching an
agreement (called an indigenous land use agreement ‘ILUA’) about a range of matters
affecting local government operation and which relate to Aboriginal involvement in the
community.
Image 2: Mudjimba Island
The Mudjimba Island landscape feature demonstrates the connection of our landscape to
heritage and the influences of Aboriginal heritage on place names.
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4.4 Partnerships and Community Engagement
Cultural heritage management involves many stakeholders that make a valuable contribution
in practical expertise and local knowledge to Council to inform policy development and
project delivery. Many contribute in a volunteer capacity. Examples of Council’s partnerships
include:
Noosa Biosphere Cultural Board;
Department of Environment and Resource Management.
Contact First;
South East Queensland Traditional Owners Association;
Museum volunteers;
Friends of Bankfoot house;
Traditional Custodians;
Historical associations;
The coast wide ‘friends of the galleries’;
Friends of Pattemore house; and
Landsborough Museum Committee.
The Noosa Biosphere Cultural Board provides advice to Council in relation to art and
heritage matters on the Noosa Biosphere and is involved in documenting and promoting the
history and heritage of the Noosa area. Community members on the board reflect a range of
interests and professions across the community and have access to industry experts within
the arts and heritage field.
Another partnership that Council is involved is the Sunshine Coast Indigenous Networks
Group (SCING). SCING reports on services that are available for Indigenous people in the
community, for example services in health, education, employment training and housing.
SCING also identifies funding opportunities to support Indigenous community organisations
and provides support to keep the organisations sustainable and informed.
4.5 Collections
Art
Cultural heritage aspects of the Sunshine Coast can be demonstrated in many ways. Art is
one form of appreciating the change that has occurred on the Sunshine Coast and can also
demonstrate cultural tradition and creativity. The region’s galleries and museums showcase
many diverse artefacts and provide an important form of education. An example of this is the
Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) which supports the professional development and
employment of arts and cultural works in regional Queensland. RADF is a partnership
between State Government, through Arts Queensland, and this Sunshine Coast council.
This funding partnership enables art to be brought to the galleries on the Sunshine Coast
and directly benefits arts and culture in the local area. Public Art has the potential to
emphasis the character of a place and reflect the communities’ unique identities.
Built Heritage Collections
Sunshine Coast Regional Council owns and manages a collection of historic buildings and
sites that require ongoing maintenance. Many provide valued community meeting places.
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Museums
Community museums across the Sunshine Coast are important for storing collections.
These include the Dalingbara Aboriginal Keeping Place at Eumundi, Gubbi Gubbi Keeping
Place at Pomona and various historical museums.
Heritage Libraries
Council’s heritage libraries provide extensive resources covering heritage and contemporary
local studies. Resources include publications, maps, oral histories, manuscripts, multimedia,
historical and contemporary images, some artefacts, website databases, and digitised local
newspapers are available on-line.
Council’s Heritage libraries provide educational programs for the community on all aspects
of cultural heritage, e.g. Heritage Week, Seniors Week and National Aboriginal and Islander
Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC). Activities are organised throughout the Sunshine
Coast to promote interest in local heritage through programs involving input from the
community.
Image 3: Kin Kin Country Life Hotel
The Country Life Hotel in Kin Kin is historically significant for its association with Kin Kin’s
earliest period of development. The hotel makes a significant aesthetic contribution to the
Main Street streetscape and is strongly regarded by the local community.
4.6 Cemeteries
Cemeteries are an important part of Australia's cultural heritage. The cemetery is an historic
record of Australian society that provides a history of the areas growth and a valuable insight
into its evolution.
Through a cemetery’s establishment and use, it records the settlement patterns and growth
of a community. The graves and monuments provide important demographic data about a
community.
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Cemeteries often contain monuments that commemorate significant events in a local
community, such as a mining disaster, shipwreck, or war. Cemeteries can also have
historical significance by virtue of the graves of noted individuals who have made important
contributions to the community.
The Burra Charter and the Australian Natural Heritage Charter define a number of "values"
which may contribute to the heritage significance of a place. All cemeteries have social and
historic values, and most have a greater or lesser degree of aesthetic and scientific values.
Historical values, Social values and religious values account for the theme or mood of the
community at that time and in that place. The significance of a cemetery reflects the strong
historical connection to the community through interment of its residents. Currently planning
for our cemeteries is guided by two former cemetery strategies in place for Caloundra and
Maroochydore.
Image 4: Anzac Park - Memorial Place Kings Beach Headland
The significance of Anzac Park as a heritage place is that it provides evidence of the social
history and development of the Caloundra area.
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5.0 KEY CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE SUNSHINE COAST
A number of key challenges have been identified in protecting and maintaining the Sunshine
Coast’s cultural heritage, centred on population growth pressures, resource needs and
greater coordination. Cultural heritage management often involves not only recognising and
protecting cultural heritage values in their current state, but also supporting and encouraging
the ongoing restoration, enhancement, community participation and use of cultural heritage
places, objects and values.
Cultural heritage is always evolving and its management is no longer focused on locking it
away for safekeeping. Contemporary management continues to look for new opportunities to
celebrate, learning from and enrich peoples lives through their local heritage. It is in this
context that future challenges are intended to be addressed.
Issue
Growth
pressures
Built Heritage -
identification and
protection
Key Challenges and Opportunities
The Sunshine Coast will have population growth from its current level
of 310,000 people to around 500,000 by 2031. This will impose
significant social, economic and environmental pressures on the
region.
The Sunshine Coast will require an additional 5,000 dwellings per year
to house the new residents, many of these will be housing within
existing urban areas, impacting on existing character, lifestyle and
people’s sense of place.
In the face of this population growth and change, places of significant
cultural heritage, as well as the predominant valued character
elements of localities, need to be protected and conserved.
Growth will bring more new arrivals that need time to establish
themselves and contribute to the community.
Processes of growth and change must not cause places to lose their
history, meaning and community identity.
Opportunity to proactively plan for the provision of cultural
infrastructure and spaces as part of the development of new
communities.
Opportunity to identify the character values within existing community
that are to be protected through the development of the new planning
scheme.
Limited recognition of the values of cultural heritage and heritage place
protection across the Sunshine Coast.
Need for more complete historical documentation on the heritage
significance of heritage places within the Sunshine Coast – paramount
for making decisions on how best to identify, protect and manage those
places in the new planning scheme.
Opportunity to offer incentives and give positive recognition for good
heritage conservation and its contribution to the community.
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Issue
Cultural and
natural
landscapes –
managing
impacts
Aboriginal
Cultural heritage
– identification
and protection
Collections –
ongoing
management
Climate Change
Key Challenges and Opportunities
Landscape heritage being adversely affected by land use practices and
limited information base to inform management decisions.
Lack of appreciation for landscape heritage values and their
significance.
Vulnerability of cultural sites to natural processes such as ageing, heat,
decay, erosion, high rainfall humidity, cyclones and vigorous vegetation
growth. The level of risk that contributes to deterioration and destruction
is often not known.
Development processes such as clearing, earthworks and construction.
Tourism and recreation impacts through increased visitation and lack of
appropriate management.
Many natural and cultural values are in private ownership, some with
existing development rights, limiting protection.
Opportunity to develop programs such as “Land for Heritage” or “Land
for Culture” similar to the Land for Wildlife program.
A major challenge for effective Aboriginal cultural heritage protection is
the limited coordination of existing information from past research.
Lack of confidence in existing databases and challenges for effective
policy development and decision making.
Lack of understanding of awareness to what constitutes Aboriginal
cultural heritage.
Develop protocols within Council for consulting with and actively
involving Traditional Owners in protecting and managing cultural
heritage.
Develop protocols or guidelines within Council for addressing Aboriginal
heritage duty of care obligations across the range of council functions
including development assessment, council developments and other
operations.
Effective management and Traditional Owner engagement is
complicated by past and future native title claims.
Ongoing maintenance of Council’s large collections with existing
resources.
Ensuring the good work of collections in the past is able to continue.
Making collections usable and accessible to the public.
Opportunities in the way of trends towards online access rather than
physical display, thus providing for global accessibility, study and
appreciation.
Growth in collections and the need for corresponding resources.
Changing weather patterns, sea level rise, coastal inundation and
increasingly severe storm events all have a potential to bring additional
threats to cultural heritage places into the future, especially those in low
lying areas close to the coastline.
New management practices are likely to be needed to maintain cultural
integrity and values.
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Issue
Management &
Governance
Key Challenges and Opportunities
The complexity of legislation and responsible agencies at the state and
local levels complicates the management of cultural heritage.
Resources and specialist staff for various heritage programs in order to
fulfil the heritage requirements of the corporate plan.
Appropriate grant funding to fill resourcing gaps.
Integration of the organisation and its responsibilities around cultural
heritage.
Opportunity to develop a consistent regional approach to cultural
heritage management.
Image 5: Bankfoot House
Bankfoot House is evidence of a major coach stop on the Brisbane-Gympie route in the early
1900’s; importantly Bankfoot House is one of only a few remains of its type and is strongly
regarded by the local community.
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6.0 CULTURAL HERITAGE STRATEGY - STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
6.1 Future Policy Framework
The Cultural Heritage Background Study is a key step in informing a Cultural Strategy. This
Strategy will be a major contributor in achieving the Sunshine Coast vision.
Figure 1: Policy Framework flowchart
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6.2 Vision
This background study has the overarching vision for cultural heritage on the Sunshine
Coast as:
‘A community which protects, manages and celebrates its shared
cultural heritage’
6.3 Outcome Areas
Five outcome areas have been identified to address key challenges for managing the
cultural heritage of the Sunshine Coast (Figure 2). The outcome areas are underpinned by a
number of cultural heritage principles, with potential strategies. The outcome areas are not
mutually exclusive but are interrelated and need to be managed through an integrated and
cooperative approach across the organisation.
Outcome Area 1:
Character and Identity
is valued and preserved
Townscape character
Built heritage
Information gathering
and knowledge
management
Outcome Area 2:
Natural and Cultural
Landscapes are
protected and
appreciated
Aboriginal heritage
protection
Traditional Owner
engagement
Landscape heritage and
significant landscapes
Scenic amenity and
vistas
Information gathering
and knowledge
management
Outcome Area 5:
Economic value is realised
Exhibitions and displays
Festivals and events
Tourism investments
Cultural investments and
industries
Outcome Area 3:
Safe keeping of
collections and Archiving
Galleries and exhibitions
Museums
Libraries and local studies
Archives (records, films,
photos)
Online web-based
information
Intangible heritage
(memoires, language, oral
histories)
Moveable heritage
Artefacts and Ephemera
Public art
Built heritage collections
Outcome Area 4:
Cultural experiences are
celebrated and enjoyed
Family history programs
Heritage education
Volunteer groups and
programs
Museums and galleries
Festivals, music, cultural
events
Heritage walks, trails,
interpretive signs
Figure 2 – Culture Heritage Management Outcome Areas
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6.4 Principles
The following guiding principles are intended to inform the preparation and delivery of
cultural heritage across for the Sunshine Coast.
Principles
Protection
Community
Involvement
Legislative
Obligations
Recording
Innovation
Access
Co-ordination
Protection and enhancement of the Sunshine Coast’s cultural heritage
including built environment character, Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal,
streetscape and landscape heritage.
Engage and involve all key stakeholders and Traditional Owners of the
community in policy creation, planning and decision making.
Actions and discussion is undertaken in accordance with relevant
legislation requirements, protocols and appropriate due diligence.
All type of mediums are use to facilitate the safe keeping of heritage
collections and information.
Encourage all stakeholders, government, community and the private
sectors to investigate new and better ways of doing things. The goal of
innovation is positive change.
Ensure that Sunshine Coast residents have access to shared
information, records, citations and the appropriate facilities and
services.
Engaging all stakeholders in a collaborative and co-ordinated manner.
6.5 Proposed strategies
The proposed strategies identified will endeavour to guide the development and
implementation of a Cultural Strategy for the Sunshine Coast. Community comment is
encouraged on the proposed strategies.
Outcome Area 1:
Character and Identity is
valued and preserved
Proposed strategies
1. The Sunshine Coast’s unique heritage and character values are identified, managed,
protected and enhanced now and into the future.
2. Understand, identify and document cultural heritage values, places and areas across
the Sunshine Coast.
3. The collective knowledge of the Sunshine Coast’s cultural heritage is built upon in
cooperation with the community.
4. Undertake consultation with key stakeholders, property owners and the community to
improve knowledge and understanding of cultural heritage on the Sunshine Coast
5. Assess the heritage values of known sites on the Sunshine Coast.
6. Identify desired character elements of towns and localities to protect our unique
heritage.
7. Information and support are provided to property owners to assist in protecting the
community’s heritage places.
8. Ensure information and data are accessible to all the community and to enable the
protection of our cultural heritage, utilise a range of communication methods.
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Outcome Area 2:
Natural and cultural landscapes
are protected and appreciated
Proposed strategies
1. Consult with Traditional Owners to ensure that culturally significant landscapes, places
and vistas are recognised and protected.
2. Increase of Aboriginal cultural heritage through legislation, regulations and duty of
care.
3. Further develop a culturally appropriate approach to engage the Aboriginal community
and Traditional Owners in identifying and protecting heritage.
4. Identify and document cultural landscapes and areas of high scenic amenity such as
the Sunshine Coast inter-urban break and Glass House Mountains Landscape to
ensure their long term preservation as places of significant value.
5. Protect culturally significant places and other sites of significance through planning
and development mechanisms such as planning schemes.
6. Recognise and respect Aboriginal peoples’ connections to the landscape.
7. The Sunshine Coast’s landscape heritage and significant landscapes are identified,
protected and managed to maintain environmental values, regional character and
scenic amenity.
8. Establish protocols and processes with Traditional Owners to facilitate engagement,
information sharing and better decision-making around cultural heritage.
9. Develop better understanding of the potential impacts of climate change on cultural
heritage on the Sunshine Coast.
Outcome Area 3:
Safe keeping of
collections and archives
Proposed strategies
1. Records and collections of cultural heritage are accessible to all the community.
2. The collective knowledge of the Sunshine Coast’s cultural heritage is built in a
cooperative approach.
3. Heritage collections and databases are adequately resourced and maintained to
protect their integrity.
4. Increase awareness of the heritage collections and archives through information,
registers, promotions and events etc.
5. In partnership with community organisations prepare management strategies to
enhance the integrity of and promote the heritage values for places of significance
such as Bankfoot House, Wallace House and Landsborough Museum.
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Outcome Area 4:
Cultural experiences
are celebrated and enjoyed
Proposed strategies
1. Cultural heritage is reflected and celebrated through our cultural facilities, spaces,
programs and events.
2. Embrace opportunities to acknowledge and celebrate the unique culture, character and
heritage of the Sunshine Coast.
3. Further develop strategies to encourage community understanding and appreciation of
Sunshine Coast culture and heritage through information, events, celebrations and
exhibitions.
4. Encourage the provision of family history and heritage programs, local studies and
online heritage information.
5. Incorporate local history and cultural heritage content in local community celebrations
and events.
6. Further develop cultural icons such as interpretative walks and walking trails across the
Sunshine Coast that celebrate cultural heritage.
7. Promote programs that increase knowledge and appreciation of cultural heritage
though mechanisms such as local studies, online information and interactive mapping.
Outcome Area 5:
Economic value
is realised
Proposed strategies
1. The economic and tourism benefits of cultural heritage and the Sunshine Coast’s
unique landscape, character and identity are understood, promoted and enhanced.
2. Innovative and appropriate mechanisms for investments in cultural activities and
creative industries are encouraged to achieve multiple economic, social, environmental
and cultural benefits.
3. Work in partnership with peak economic development organisations and cultural
heritage organisations to enhance economic value of cultural heritage for the Sunshine
Coast.
4. Include the values of cultural heritage in all planning and policy development that could
influence economic outcomes.
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7.0 WHERE TO FROM HERE
The purpose of this Cultural Heritage Background Study is to present the community with an
opportunity to provide guidance and feedback to inform the development of a strategic policy
document – the Cultural Strategy. The process diagram below outlines how these strategic
documents will inform future planning and operations. The future Cultural Strategy will inform
and drive planning and funding decisions for cultural heritage for the next 10-20 years.
Figure 3: The Strategy Implementation Flowchart
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8.0 CONCLUSION
The key directions of the Cultural Heritage Background Study are outlined below. Your
thoughts and comments on this paper will help inform the next phase of planning for cultural
heritage on the Sunshine Coast.
The Sunshine Coast’s unique built heritage and townscape character are identified,
managed and protected.
The collective knowledge of the Sunshine Coast’s cultural heritage is built upon in
cooperation with the community and industry to inform effective decision-making and
gain greater appreciation and understanding.
Information and support are provided to property owners to assist in protecting the
community’s valued built heritage places.
Traditional Aboriginal cultural landscapes and culturally significant places and vistas
are recognised and protected.
The legislative obligations to protect Aboriginal cultural heritage are fulfilled and
understood.
Through the planning process recognise and respect Aboriginal peoples’ cultural
connections to the regional landscape.
The Sunshine Coast’s landscape heritage and significant landscapes are identified,
protected and managed to maintain environmental values, regional character and
scenic amenity.
Records and collections of cultural heritage are kept safe and accurate and are made
available for the community’s current and future access and enjoyment.
Arts and cultural development are supported through the effective and proactive
planning and provision of cultural infrastructure, spaces, programs and events.
Council programs and events encourage the community to come together, enjoy and
learn about heritage.
Local history and heritage are incorporated into community celebrates and events.
Connect people and the region’s cultural heritage through education and
engagement.
The economic and tourism benefits of cultural heritage and the Sunshine Coast’s
unique landscape, character and identity are promoted and enhanced.
Thank you for participating in this important phase of policy development.
Please complete the feedback sheet by the 7 December 2009
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9.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY
Caloundra City Council (2004) ‘Caloundra City Plan – Creating Our Future’
Chenoweth (2001) ‘Caloundra City Landscape Assessment Planning Study’
Department of Infrastructure and Planning (2009) South East Queensland Regional Plan
2009-2031
Environmental Protection Agency (2001) SEQ Coastal Management Plan – Queensland’s
Coastal Policy
Environmental Protection Agency (2000) State Interest Planning Policy for Cultural Heritage
(Historical) in Planning Schemes
Environmental Protection Agency (2000) State Interest Planning Policy for Cultural Heritage
(Indigenous) in Planning Schemes
Local Government Association of Queensland Inc. (2007) Integrating Natural Resource
Management into Planning Schemes: A Guideline for Queensland Local Governments
Local Government Association of Queensland Inc. (2007) Policy Statement
Maroochy Shire Council (2000) ‘Maroochy Plan – Planning for Local, Regional and Future
Communities’
Noosa Council (2006) ‘The Noosa Plan planning scheme
South East Queensland Traditional Owner Alliance (SEQTOA) (2008) Cultural Heritage
Information Plan
Strong, M (2006) ‘Glass House Mountains Issues and Discussion paper – heritage pathways
of the Glass House Mountains’
Sunshine Coast Regional Council (2008) ‘Maroochy River Value Project’
Todd, R (2006) Maroochy Heritage Study - Validation of Nominations
http://www.icomos.org/australia/burra.html
http://library.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/
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APPENDIX A

APPENDIX A – CITATIONS
HISTORICAL CULTURAL HERITAGE
PLACES – STATE AND LOCAL
Appendix A contains identified heritage places within the 3 existing planning schemes
and the State Heritage Register (shaded).
The three former councils’ have each provided a cultural heritage register as part of their
respective planning schemes. These registers have undergone previous public consultation
and validation to create citation’s for each of the heritage places listed.
The State Register is a publicly available heritage register.
Further additions to the current registers can be made as an ongoing process of renewal to
protect our cultural heritage places and this will be further investigated as part of the future
cultural policies and documents to be developed.
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Cultural Heritage
Site
Information
Source
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Address
Citation - Accepted
Former
Beerwah Forest
Station &
Arboretum
Roys Road
Beerwah
(BH06)
An experimental station was established at Beerwah in 1924 to trial the plantings of exotic pine species from the United States. A nursery was established in 1931 to propagate Pinus
eliottii and Pinus taeda. Trial plantings of hardwoods were also undertaken. Beerwah was the headquarters for forest operations in the district until 1958 when they were transferred to
Beerburrum. Research continued to be carried out until 1980. A number of buildings and plantings of the period when the site was used for research remain on the site. Significance The
Beerwah Forest Station and Arboretum is significant for the role it played in the introduction and development of exotic pine species in forest plantations. Exotic pine plantations became
a major activity of the Queensland Department of Forestry. After World War 2, private companies also developed extensive exotic pine plantations.
Site of Coochin
Homestead
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Old Gympie
Road
Beerwah
(BH31)
Coochin Homestead was established by John Simpson on land selected in 1878. Simpson developed his run into a substantial property and was also involved in the timber industry. The
house and associated structures no longer remain, but a group of mature trees survive from the period and indicated the location of the homestead close to Old Gympie Road and Mellum
Creek. Significance The site of Coochin homestead is significant for its association with John Simpson and the early European occupation of the Beerwah area. The homestead was
situated close to the Old Gympie Road and was a stopping point for travellers.
Beerwah Hotel
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Beerwah Parade
Beerwah
(BH10)
Erected in 1937, this hotel replaced an earlier building. The building was based on the designs of AT Longland, a Brisbane based architect, who was also responsible for the rebuilding of
the Hotel Francis in Caloundra. The builder for the project was L Hammer. The Beerwah Hotel is two storeys and was built partly in response to the growing volume of motor vehicle
traffic passing through Beerwah as a result of the construction of the Bruce Highway in the mid 1930s. The first declared section of the Bruce Highway ran from Rothwell near Redcliffe
to Eumundi. In particular, it boosted traffic to Caloundra and Maroochydore. Significance The Beerwah Hotel is significant as an example of a 1930s hotel and as evidence of the growth
of Beerwah in the 1930s following the construction of the Bruce Highway in the mid 1930s.
Beerwah
Railway Station
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Simpson Street
Beerwah
(BH25)
The section of the North Coast line between Caboolture and Landsborough was opened on 1 February 1890. Beerwah was opened shortly afterwards. The station building is a standard
19th century design with three stages of additions. The core comprises the waiting shelter and office. A signal cabin was added to the south end and ladies waiting room and toilet to the
north end.
Significance This station is significant as an example of a standard 19th century station which was distinguished by the roof line sloping away from the platform. It is similar to the
station at Glass House but the Beerwah station is more complete, retaining the signal cabin structure.
Beerburrum
Scientific Area
No (1)
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Beerburrum
State Forest
Beerwah
(BH32)
Reserved in 1968, during a period of widespread exotic pine plantation establishment, Scientific Area 1 in the Beerburrum Forestry District was the first scientific area to be reserved in
Queensland. Occupying an area of land in close proximity to newly-established exotic pine plantations, the reservation of this, and subsequent scientific areas, was consistent with the
recognition from the late 1960s of the importance of preserving viable samples of ecosystems, particularly those undergoing conversion to exotic softwood plantations on the coastal
lowlands. The area comprises 620 ha and is bounded by Roys Road, Mawson’s Road and the Bruce Highway. It consists principally of wallum and eucalypt forest.
Significance The Beerburrum Scientific Area No 1 is significant as evidence of changing attitudes to forestry management in the 1960s. Previously any native vegetation in the
Beerburrum and Beerwah area had been progressively cleared and planted with exotic pines. The decision to preserve this area was a recognition of the need to protect areas of scientific
importance.
Bribie Island
World War 2
Fortifications
State
Heritage
Place
North & South
Bribie Island,
QLD
Fortifications were constructed on Bribie Island between 1939 and 1942 as part of a network of defence installations to protect Moreton Bay. Fort Bribie was located on the northern end
of the island and comprised two concrete gun emplacements, mine control huts (of concrete) and a camp for personnel. Both gun emplacements and the mine control huts survive as well
as remnants of the camp.
Significance The Bribie Island World War 2 fortifications are significant as evidence of the coastal defence measures developed between 1939 and 1942. These fortifications indicated
the seriousness given to the possibility of enemy attack.
Campbellville
Settlement and
Cemetery
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Roys Road and
Coochin Creek
Pumicestone
Passage
(BI06)
James Campbell established a sawmill on the banks of Coochin Creek in 1881 to mill timber from the Blackall Ranges. A settlement grew up around the mill. The mill closed in 1890
when the railway line reached Landsborough. The settlement was abandoned and only remnants of the settlement and mill survive. The most significant evidence of the settlement is the
cemetery which contains approximately nine graves.
Significance Campbellville settlement is significant as evidence of the patterns of timber exploitation in the district. The mill was located on the banks of Coochin Creek to facilitate ease
of transportation of the milled timber. The remnants of the settlement are evidence of the rise and decline associated with timber settlements.
Cowiebank site
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tripcony Bight
Pumicestone
Passage
(B107)
Cowiebank was the home of Thomas Tripcony who was a prominent identity in the Bribie/Pumicestone area in the 19th century. Tripcony moved to the site where he built his home
Cowiebank in the 1860s to take up oystering. Tripcony also selected 1100 acres on the passage between Glass Mountain Creek and Hussey Creek. Cowiebank became a well known
location on the passage. Thomas Tripcony died in 1896 but his family continued oystering into the 20th century. The house was destroyed by fire in 1990.
Significance The site of Cowiebank is significant for its association with the Tripcony family and the oyster industry in the Pumicestone Passage. Thomas Tripcony was a well known
identity in the area and acknowledged as one of the first permanent European residents along the Passage.
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Cultural Heritage
Site
Beerburrum
Forestry
Station
barracks
Information
Source
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Address
Red Road
Beerburrum
(BM03)
Citation - Accepted
The Beerburrum Forest Station was established in 1947 as part of the expansion of the pine plantations in surrounding state forest areas. An office, barracks and sheds were erected. Other
buildings were erected, as the Beerburrum station became the principal centre in place of the Beerwah Forest station. Significant buildings on the site include barracks, and office.
Significance The Beerburrum Forest station barracks are significant as evidence of the expansion of the pine plantations in the Beerburrum area. The barracks are significant as examples
of accommodation for forestry workers in the post war period.
Beerburrum
Cemetery
Former
Beerburrum
Bakery
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Via Beerburrum
Road
Beerburrum
(BM02)
5 Anzac Avenue
Beerburrum
(BM10)
The Beerburrum cemetery is located west of the township and set amidst open scrub. It contains graves from early settlers of the Soldier Settlement. About 12 graves are still visible. The
cemetery was officially closed in 1970. Significance The Beerburrum Cemetery is significant as evidence of the Soldier Settlement scheme in the district following World War 1.
This building was erected c1920 following the establishment of the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement scheme. This scheme was an extensive program to provide returned soldiers with
opportunities to take up farming. Beerburrum became the centre of the scheme and the bakery was one of a group of shops erected in Anzac Avenue. The town prospered briefly but the
soldier settlement scheme was a failure. The town declined and a number of buildings including shops were moved elsewhere. The bakery was the only retail building to remain.
Significance The former Beerburrum Bakery is significant as evidence of the development of Beerburrum as the centre of the soldier settlement scheme after World War 1. The scheme
was one of the largest soldier settlement schemes in Australia but was an abject failure. The former bakery is one of the few remaining structures in Beerburrum erected to service the
soldier settlement scheme.
School of Arts
Hall
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
6/7 Anzac
Avenue
Beerburrum
(BM04)
This building was erected c1920 following the establishment of the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement scheme. This scheme was an extensive program to provide returned soldiers with
opportunities to take up farming. Beerburrum became the centre of the scheme and the School of Arts Hall was erected as a community hall. The town prospered briefly but the soldier
settlement scheme was a failure. The town declined and a number of buildings including shops were moved elsewhere. The school of Arts Hall remained and continues as a venue for
community activities. Significance The Beerburrum School of Arts Hall is significant for its associations with the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement scheme. The scheme was a failure and
many of the buildings erected in association with the scheme were either demolished or relocated. The School of Arts Hall is one of the few buildings that survived this period in
Beerburrum.
Anzac Avenue
Memorial trees
State
Heritage
Place
Anzac Avenue,
Beerburrum
QLD
An avenue of trees was planted in Anzac Avenue to commemorate those who had served in World War 1. The most common form of memorial throughout Australia was either in stone
or an honour board. The marking of the landscape with trees was a less common form of memorial. In Queensland approximately six avenues were planted after World War1. This
avenue comprises camphor laurels and weeping figs. Significance The Anzac Avenue Memorial trees are an uncommon example of a first world war avenue of honour. These trees,
along with the few other avenues of honour, demonstrate a different response to remembering and honouring those who served in the war. Unlike the memorials of stone or buildings
which attempted to make statements about permanence and remembrance always, the avenues of honour expressed the view that trees, like all living things must grow, age, decay and die.
Kings Beach
Bathing
Pavilion
State
Heritage
Place
Ormonde
Terrace, Kings
Beach
QLD
King's Beach bathing pavilion was constructed in 1937 by the Landsborough Shire Council. The pavilion was built as part of a larger scheme to improve the facilities at Caloundra, which
was growing in popularity as a seaside resort. The pavilion was designed by CE Plant, and was constructed for a cost of 3030 pounds. The building comprised a small kiosk, entrance
vestibule and open air change rooms. The building continues to be used as public toilets and change rooms. Significance The King's Beach Bathing Pavilion demonstrates the
development and expansion of Caloundra as a seaside resort in the 1930s. The construction for the Bruce Highway and a connecting road to Caloundra was a catalyst for Caloundra's
growth in the late 1930s. This building is one of the few which survive from the period which demonstrate this pattern of growth. The building is also significant as an example of a 1930s
public bathing pavilion with its open air change rooms and with the exterior exhibiting Spanish Mission architectural influences.
Caloundra
Cemetery
SS Dicky wreck
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Queen Street
Caloundra
(CA04)
Dicky Beach
Caloundra
(CA59)
An area was reserved as a cemetery in 1910. Significance The Caloundra cemetery is significant in providing evidence of the social history and development of Caloundra.
During a cyclone in early 1893, the SS Dicky was washed ashore north of Caloundra Head. No lives were lost but the ship was unable to be refloated. The wreck has been a prominent
feature of the Dicky Beach landscape. When still reasonably intact, it was used as a dressing shed by bathers. Significance The SS Dicky wreck is a reminder of the dangers associated
with sea travel in the 19th and early 20th century. Sea travel was a common means of transport and accidents involving vessels off the Queensland coast were a common occurrence.
Most vessels sank at sea, while some such as the SS Dicky were grounded ashore.
32

Cultural Heritage
Site
The former
Caloundra
Lighthouse
Information
Source
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Address
Canberra
Terrace
Caloundra
(CA47)
Citation - Accepted
This lighthouse was erected in 1896 replacing an earlier timber structure. It was constructed on land owned by Robert Bulcock. The lighthouse functioned until 1966 when a new
lighthouse was erected adjacent. The lighthouse was relocated to a site at Golden Beach in 1969. It has recently been relocated back to its original site. Significance The former
Caloundra lighthouse is significant as evidence of the use of the Caloundra headlands for navigation from the late 1890s. Located on the highest ridge in the town, the lighthouse was a
landmark in the district. It became a symbol of the town and remains as one of the most important structures associated with the early development of Caloundra.
Queen of the
Colonies
Monument
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Queen of the
Colonies Parade
Moffat Beach
(CA60)
This monument commemorates the rescue of a group of fourteen sailors from the 'Queen of the Colonies'. The Queen of the Colonies was an immigrant ship which arrived in Moreton
Bay in April 1863. The ship anchored off Moreton Island in order to bury a deceased passenger. While returning to the ship, the crew were separated during a severe storm and were
eventually washed ashore at Moffat Beach. They carved the letters '1863 - Q of C' on a Pandanus palm. The tree survived until the 1930s. A small concrete monument was erected in
1933 to commemorate the event. Significance The Queen of the Colonies Monument is significant as evidence of the ever present dangers of sea travel in the 19th century. Numerous
lives were lost at sea along the Queensland coast. Although no lives were lost in this episode, the monument is reminder of the dangers faced in sea travel.
Military Jetty
Norfolk pines
along esplanade
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
The Esplanade,
Diamond Head,
Golden Beach
(CA67)
Caloundra
Esplanades
Caloundra
(CA66)
This jetty was erected in 1941 to assist in the transportation of goods and personnel to Fort Bribie. Significance Military jetty is significant as evidence of the use of the Caloundra district
for military operations during World War 2. In particular, it highlights the importance of Fort Bribie in the defence of Moreton Bay.
The tradition of planting Norfolk pines along the foreshore at certain seaside locations dates from the 19th century. Norfolk pines became a signature tree at seaside resorts, most notably
at Manly in Sydney. The concept spread north and local authorities took up the practice along the Queensland coast, including Caloundra. These trees are now a distinctive part of the
Caloundra landscape. Significance The Norfolk pines along the Caloundra foreshore are a significant part of the landscape and contribute to the distinctive character of the Caloundra
beaches.
Glass House
Mountains
National
Landscape
State
Heritage
Place
Glasshouse
Mountains Rd,
Glass House
Mountains,
QLD
The Glass House Mountains are a distinctive and spectacular landform feature of South East Queensland. Rising abruptly from the coastal plain as group of isolated volcanic plugs
silhouetted against the predominantly flat skyline, these mountains embody significant landmark qualities for the community and evoke strong emotional responses. They are a dominant
and instantly identifiable landform from a number of distant observation points. The aesthetic characteristics of the Glass House Mountains noted by Captain Cook in 1770, have inspired
a number of works by significant Australian artists in a range of media including music, painting, poetry, photography and film. Some of these artists and their work are recognised at the
international level and include Judith Wright, Conrad Martens, David Malouf and Fred Williams. The Glass House Mountains represent the best example of an eroded central volcano
complex in Australia. Because the volcanic bodies did not reach the surface during their formation, with the exception of Mount Beerwah, they are free from erosion complexities, and
form a spectacular example of intrusive volcanic bodies. The site is important for elucidating the volcanic history of the eastern Australian mainland.
Elaman Creek
Recreational
Reserve
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Maleny-
Kenilworth
Road
Conondale
(CS19)
The Elaman Creek recreational reserve is located 5 km east of Conondale. The reserve was gazetted c 1930s and was also known as Green Park. It was the centre for outdoor recreation
activities in the Conondale district including horse racing, cricket and tennis. Evidence of the horse racing survives with timber rails adjacent to the track, judge's box and catering shed. A
motor cycling race track has also been constructed on the reserve. Significance The Elaman Creek recreational reserve is significant for its association with outdoor recreational activities
in the Conondale district. It is also significant as an example of a country picnic race facility.
Bankfoot
House
State
Heritage
Place
1998 Old
Gympie Road,
Glass House
QLD
Bankfoot House was erected in 1878 with later extensions. William and Mary Grigor built the first Bankfoot House in 1868 to provide accommodation and meals for travellers to the
Gympie goldfields. Their house became a staging post for coaches on the Gympie route. A second building was erected in 1878 and various additions were undertaken, including the
verandah in 1930. Other buildings on the site include dairy, hay shed and two mature bunya pines trees planted in 1879. Significance Bankfoot House is significant as evidence of the site
of a major coaching stop on the Brisbane-Gympie road built to serve the Gympie goldfields. Coaching stops were common throughout 19th Century Queensland but little evidence
remains of many of these sites. Bankfoot House and associated structures and features is one of the most intact of a coaching stop.
Flinders
Monument
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Flinders Park,
Tibrogargan
Reserve Glass
House
(GE11)
When exploring the Moreton Bay region on board the Norfolk in 1899, Matthew Flinders undertook a short overland journey to the Glass House Mountains. This monument was erected
to commemorate his visit. It was erected jointly by the Royal Historical Society of Queensland and the Department of Main Roads. Significance The Flinders Monument is significant for
its association with the commemoration of the visit to the Glass House region by Matthew Flinders in 1899.
33

Cultural Heritage
Site
Uniting Church
Information
Source
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Address
Landsborough-
Maleny Road
Landsborough
(LH10)
Citation - Accepted
The Landsborough Uniting Church was erected c1892 as the Landsborough Primitive Methodist Church. Primitive Methodist services commenced in the district in the 1870s. With the
expansion of the township following the construction of the railway line in 1889, the congregation expanded and a small timber church was built on the corner of Myla Road and Old
Gympie Road. The church became the Landsborough Methodist Church in 1902 with the amalgamation of the Primitive Methodists and Wesleyan Methodists. In 1932 the church was
moved from its site near the school to its present location. The church was placed on high blocks and the ground level was later enclosed to provide a hall. The church became the
Landsborough Uniting Church in 1977. Significance The Landsborough Uniting Church is significant as an example of a Primitive Methodist church building. The Primitive Methodists
emphasised simplicity and plainness in worship which is reflected in this building. It is one of only a few Primitive Methodist churches which survive in Queensland. The building also
demonstrates the development of Landsborough following the extension of the railway line from Caboolture in 1889. It is one of a number of buildings erected as the town developed as a
rail centre for the district.
Landsborough
Court House
Former Police
Station
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Caloundra
Street
Landsborough
(LH12)
40 Maleny
Street
Landsborough
(LH13)
The Landsborough Court House was erected in 1940. The building contained offices and a small court room at the rear. The plan was a standard plan for court houses which had evolved
from the 1870s. Significance The Landsborough Court House is significant as an example of a small rural court house.
The former Landsborough Police Station was erected in 1889 for a cost of 480 pounds. It was situated at the junction of what was then the main intersection with Old Gympie Road and
the Maleny Road. The building contained an office and quarters for the constable. The building ceased to function as a police station when a new police station and court house was
erected in 1941 in Caloundra Street. Significance The former Landsborough police station is one of a group of buildings in the town that was erected following the extension of the
railway line from Caboolture. The building provides evidence of the growth in the town resulting from the railway line’s extension.
Landsborough
School of Arts
Memorial Hall
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Old
Landsborough
Road
Landsborough
(LH16)
The Landsborough School of Arts Memorial Hall was erected in 1923. The hall was built as a memorial to those men from the district who had served in World War 1. The hall is a large
timber building with a T plan. This plan was typical of school of arts buildings in Queensland with a large hall and two small rooms at the front. One room was usually the school of arts
library, the other used for meetings. The building is in good condition and continues to serve as a community hall. Significance The Landsborough School of Arts Memorial Hall is a
good example of early 20th century school of arts building. It is also significant for its associations with the Landsborough community.
Mellum Club
Hotel
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Cribb Street
Landsborough
(LH17)
The Mellum Club Hotel was erected in 1882 on the corner of Old Gympie Road and Maleny Road. It served travellers to and from Gympie. The hotel was moved to its present location
c1915 principally to be closer to the railway station. Alterations and additions have been undertaken but the early core of the building remains. Significance The Mellum Club Hotel is
significant for its associations with the development of Landsborough.
Leeding House
Dyer House
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
10 Maleny
Street
Landsborough
(LH18)
26 Maleny
Street
Landsborough
(LH19)
This house was the residence of Arthur Leeding who worked as a blacksmith in Landsborough from 1910 to 1946. The house is lowset, timber and was likely to be erected in the period
1900- 1914. Significance The Leeding House is significant as an example of an early 20th century timber house. It is part of a group of late 19th and early 20th century timber houses in
Maleny Street that contribute to the character of this part of Landsborough.
This house was erected by Henry Christopher Dyer in 1888. Dyer arrived in Landsborough in 1886 and later became the lessee of the Mellum Creek Hotel. He operated a general store
and butcher shop. Dyer established a sawmill in 1896 which operated until 1923. Dyer's house was a large lowset timber building, with core rooms enclosed by a verandah on three sides.
Significance Dyer House is significant as a fine example of a 19th century timber house. It is also significant for its associations with Henry Dyer who played a prominent role in the
early development of Landsborough.
Landsborough
Shire Office
(former)
State
Heritage
Place
6 Maleny Street,
Landsborough
QLD
The Landsborough Shire Council was formed in February 1912 when 423 acres were excised from the northern end of the Caboolture Shire Council. A house/office was erected for the
first Shire Clerk in 1913 opposite the Peace Memorial Park. This building was used for Council meetings until purpose-built Chambers were erected in 1924. Significance The former
Landsborough Shire Office building is significant for its associations with the early development of the Landsborough Shire Council.
34

Cultural Heritage
Site
Landsborough
Railway Station
and Air Raid
Shelter
Information
Source
State
Heritage
Place
Address
Cribb Street,
Landsborough
QLD
Citation - Accepted
The Caboolture-Landsborough section of the North Coast line was opened on 1 February 1890. A standard plan station building was erected. Additions were undertaken shortly
afterwards and by 1893 the building comprised an office, waiting room, bar, dining room, kitchen, ladies room and closets. The office was extended in 1906 and a post office added in
1914. During World War 2, a concrete air raid shelter was constructed on the southern end of the platform. The shelter is of reinforced concrete and the original purpose is still very
evident. Most shelters attached to railway stations were demolished after the war or converted to other uses. The Landsborough shelter is one of only three surviving examples in
Queensland on a railway station. Significance The Landsborough Railway station is significant as an example of a timber station building of the late 19th century with later additions.
The Landsborough air raid shelter is significant as a rare intact example of a public air raid shelter. It is also a rare example of a World War 2 air raid shelter erected within the grounds of
a railway station.
Former
Landsborough
Post Office
Former
Jewellers shop
Former
Butcher Shop
Former Bakery
Mooloolah
Cemetery
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Caloundra
Street
Landsborough
(LH37)
Cnr Old
Landsborough
and Maleny
Roads
Landsborough
(LH47)
26 Cribb St
Landsborough
(LH48)
28 Cribb Street
Landsborough
(LH49)
Glass House
Mountains Road
Glenview
(MH07)
The former Landsborough Post Office Building was relocated to Landsborough in the late 1930s. Significance The former Landsborough Post Office is an example of a small country
post office. It is significant for its association with postal services in the Landsborough district.
This shop was erected in 1933 for Mr Richardson. It is a timber building with residence attached. A corrugated iron awning supported by timber posts extends over the footpath.
Significance The former Jeweller's shop is an important part of the Landsborough townscape, situated prominently on the corner of Old Landsborough and Maleny Roads. It is one of a
group of small timber shops which contribute to the identity of Landsborough.
The former Butcher Shop is a lowset timber and masonry building. It was erected in 1926 for GE Hyde. Significance The former Butcher Shop is significant as one of a group of retail
buildings in Cribb Street.
The former bakery comprises a timber shop fronting Cribb Street with brick bakehouse attached to the rear. The building was erected in 1922 for Dick Orrell. Significance The former
Bakery is significant as one of a group of retail buildings in Cribb Street.
The Mooloolah Cemetery was gazetted in 1876. It is situated on the southern side of the Glass House Mountains Road near the Bruce Highway junction. The cemetery contains graves of
early European settlers in the district including Patrick Murray (1876), Edmund Lander (1888) and Elizabeth Westerway. Landsborough Shire Council assumed responsibility for the
cemetery from local trustees in 1937. Significance The Mooloolah Cemetery is significant in providing evidence of the social history and development of the Mooloolah district.
Ewen Maddock
house site
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Mooloolah
Connection
Road
Mooloolah
(MH13)
Ewen Maddock arrived in the Mooloolah district at the age of five years. He attended the Mooloolah Plains Provisional school and worked in the district fencing, timber getting, and
driving bullock teams. He later took up dairying. Maddock took up land adjacent Mooloolah Road and erected a house which was called 'Koongomoon'. The house had been demolished
but mature trees including hoop and bunya pines remain. Other vegetation also distinguishes the site. Significance The Ewen Maddock house site is significant for its associations with
Ewen Maddock. Maddock was a prominent identity in the Mooloolah and Landsborough districts and associated with the early European development of the area.
Mooloolah
railway shelter
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Bray Road
Mooloolah
(MH32)
Although the railway passed through the Mooloolah district in 1891 with the extension of the line from Landsborough to Eumundi, a railway station was not established at Mooloolah
until 1912. The station now only comprises only a timber shelter for passengers. Significance The Mooloolah railway shelter is significant as an example of a plain timber shelter. It is
also significant as evidence of the role of the railway in the development of the township.
Dularcha
Railway Tunnel
State
Heritage
Place
1.5 km south of
Mooloolah
township,
Mooloolah QLD
The Dularcha railway tunnel was constructed in 1890-1 as part of the North Coast Railway line from Brisbane to Gympie. This line was part of the section from Caboolture to Yandina
which was built between 1888 and 1891. The tunnel was only one of two on the North Coast line. The tunnel is built through a sandstone ridge and is concrete lined. It is slightly curved
and approximately 100m long. In 1932 a new line was built between Landsborough and Mooloolah bypassing the Dularcha tunnel. Significance The Dularcha railway tunnel is
significant as a good example of a concrete lined railway tunnel built in the 19th century. It is significant also for its association with the Dularcha National Park which was gazetted in
1922. The boundaries of the park were created around the railway line to enable passengers to view a part of Queensland's forests.
35

Cultural Heritage
Site
Witta
Cemetery
Information
Source
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Address
Witta Road
Witta
(MY08)
Citation - Accepted
The Witta Cemetery was originally known as the Teutoberg Cemetery. The first burial was of a child in 1899 with the first adult interred in 1902. The cemetery comprises two sections.
The front section contains graves with generally plain headstones. The back and newer section is a lawn cemetery. A small shelter shed and World War 2 memorial is located in the centre
of the cemetery. An unusual headstone is that of 'Mitchell Aboriginal' Mitchell died in the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919 and lived with the local Harris family. Significance The Witta
Cemetery is significant as evidence of the social history and development of the Witta district. In particular, it provides evidence as to the role of German migrants in the development of
the district. The marked grave of 'Mitchell Aboriginal' is unusual in Queensland cemeteries of this era.
Former Baptist
Church & Hall
Former Bakery
The Butchers
Shop
Soldiers
Memorial Hall
Former
Masonic Hall
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
76 Maple St
Maleny
(MY10)
Maple Street
Maleny
(MY100)
Maple Street
Maleny
(MY101)
Bunya Street
Maleny (MY22)
Beech Street
Maleny (MY24)
The former Maleny Baptist Church is situated at the western end of Maple Street. The church was erected in 1913 and constructed of local timbers. Significance The former Baptist
Church is significant as evidence of the role of the Baptist Church in the Maleny district. It is also significant for its landmark qualities.
Significance The former Bakery is significant as a group of shops in Maple Street with different retail functions. Maple Street is significant as an example of an early-mid 20th century
country town main street.
The Butcher’s shop is a single storey timber building. Significance The Butcher’s shop is significant as a group of shops in Maple Street with different retail functions. Maple Street is
significant as an example of an early-mid 20th century country town main street.
The Soldiers Memorial Hall was erected in the late 1940s. Material for a surplus Army building in Maryborough was used in its construction. Significance The Soldiers Memorial Hall is
significant as a memorial erected after World War 2 and as an important venue for community activities.
The former Masonic Hall was erected in 1920 on land donated by Francis Dunlop. Although it now functions as a veterinary surgery, the original function is evident in the windows set
high on the two side walls, a typical feature of Masonic halls and temples where privacy was paramount. Significance The former Masonic Hall is significant for its association with
Freemasonry in the Maleny district.
Maleny Lodge
Guest House
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
58 Maple Street
Maleny (MY25)
This building was erected for Alfred Cooke in 1909. Cooke was the so-called father of Maleny. Built by Harry Bate, the house was known as 'Rosedale'. The building was converted to a
guest house in 1930 and has been used for this purpose subsequently. Significance The Maleny Lodge Guest House is significant as an example of an early 20th century house in Maleny.
It is also significant as a guest house as evidence of the development of the tourist industry in Maleny from the 1930s.
Mountain View
Homestead
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Mountain View
Road
Maleny (MY27)
This house was constructed c1915. It has been used as guest house for a substantial period. Significance Mountain View Homestead is significant as an example of a large early 20th
century timber house in the Maleny district. It is also significant as a guest house as evidence of the development of the tourist industry in Maleny from the 1930s.
Yarunga
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
10 Cedar Street
Maleny (MY44)
Yarunga was erected in 1914 for Andy Maclean. The house is situated on a triangular shaped allotment amidst mature trees. The house is timber with weatherboard cladding.
Significance Yarunga is significant as an example of an early 20th century timber house in the Maleny district. The grounds are significant for a number of mature trees which have
landmark qualities within the Maleny townscape.
Nothlings
House
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Curramore Road
Witta
(MY74)
House and cottage built c 1900. Selections in the Witta district were taken up in the late 19th century, in particular by German families. Expressions of German identity were evident in
religion with the establishment of a Lutheran Church and also in building form such as in the Nothling house. Significance Nothlings house and cottage are significant as examples of
early farm buildings in the Witta district erected by German settlers. The high-pitched gable roof is unusual for a late 19th century house in Queensland and suggests the influence of
German building form.
Bergann farm
house
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Bergann Road
Witta
(MY76)
This house was built in the early 1920s for Charlie Bergann. Bergann was one of a group of German migrants who took up selections in the Witta district. Significance This Bergann
Farm house is significant as an example of a 1920s farm house and for its association with the Bergann family who were early settlers in the district.
Dunlop Graves
Woolston
Wood
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Maleny State
School, Bunya
Street
Maleny (MY82)
Off Mary
Cairncross
Drive
Two headstones are situated on the front boundary of the Maleny State School. The headstones marked the graves of Margaret Hankinson and Jane Dunlop. Jane Dunlop was the first
female European to live permanently on the Maleny plateau Significance The Dunlop Headstones are significant for associations with the Dunlop family, early European settlers on the
Maleny plateau.
Prior to European occupation, the Blackall ranges were covered with rainforest. Most of the vegetation had disappeared by 1900 following timber getting and the establishment of
dairying. Small pockets of rainforest survived including this area to the east of Maleny township. Significance Woolston Wood is significant as a rare example of the vegetation which
formerly covered the Blackall ranges.
36

Cultural Heritage
Site
Information
Source
Address
Maleny (MY83)
Citation - Accepted
Porter's Wood
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Obi Lane, North
Maleny Road
Maleny (MY84)
Prior to European occupation, the Blackall ranges were covered with rainforest. Most of the vegetation had disappeared by 1900 following timber getting and the establishment of
dairying. Small pockets of rainforest survived including this area to the north of Maleny township. Significance Porter's Wood is significant as a rare example of the vegetation which
formerly covered the Blackall ranges.
Peachester
Cemetery
Peachester
Uniting Church
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Cemetery Road
Peachester
(PR06)
Peachester Road
Peachester
(PR07)
Peachester Cemetery is located several kilometres west of Peachester township. The cemetery was gazetted in 1905 and contains the graves of a number of local identities including Inigo
Jones. Significance The Peachester Cemetery is significant as a record of social history of the Peachester district.
This building was erected in 1922 as the Peachester Methodist Church. The land was donated by K Hendren, materials supplied by W Grigor and the building erected by voluntary labour.
The name was changed in 1977 with the formation of the Uniting Church in Australia. Significance The Peachester Uniting Church is significant as an example of a small timber church
and for its associations with the Methodist Church in the Peachester district.
Crohamhurst
Observatory
(former) - Inigo
Jones Farm
Site
State
Heritage
Place
131
Crohamhurst
Road,
Peachester QLD
Inigo Jones (1872-1954) was a noted meteorologist and long- range weather forecaster. At the age of 16 years, he joined the staff of the Meteorological Office in Brisbane. In 1893 he left
the office to undertake long range weather forecasting on his father's dairy farm near Peachester. Crohamhurst became the base for his work over the next 35 years. Dairying continued as
the major activity on the farm and in 1927 Jones realised that more substantial premises were required for his work. In 1935 a new Observatory was constructed on a hill to the north of
the farm house. In 1950 Jones gifted the northern part of his farm to the State, including the house site, on the condition that he and his wife could live on the property until their deaths.
Jones died in 1954. The site, on the lower bank of a side road off Crohamhurst Road, is denoted by four large mango trees and a house site that is situated to the north of the mango trees
in an excavated area below the road. Significance The Inigo Jones site is significant for its association with Inigo Jones. Jones was a pioneer in long range weather forecasting in
Queensland. He gained a reputation as a forecaster in a state where the weather played a critical role in the development of primary industries.
Peachester Hall
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Peachester Road
Peachester
(PR13)
The Peachester Hall was erected in 1947, replacing an earlier building which had been constructed in 1888. Some of the materials in the 1888 building were used to construct the new hall
in 1945 which was built by voluntary labour. Various additions and alterations have been undertaken subsequently to increase the floor area. The hall continues as a venue for a wide
range of community activities in the Peachester district. Significance The Peachester Hall is significant as an example of a rural community hall and as a focal point for community
activities in the Peachester district.
Site of Peach
Trees
Settlement
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Peachester Road
Peachester
(PR14)
This site was the location of the first European settlement in the area. It was originally known as Peach Trees, reputedly after wild peaches which had grown in area. Grigor's sawmill was
established on the site and a large fig now denotes the site Significance This site is significant as evidence of the first European settlement in the Peachester district.
Harry's Hut
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Cooloola
Section, Great
Sandy National
Park
Harry's Hut did not always bear its present name. It was constructed in 1957 by Alan Buchanan and Norman Thrush in their spare time. The hut was built to accommodate timber workers who,
because of the nature of their employment, had to remain `in the bush' for perhaps a week at a time. The men had semi-permanent campsites at their actual work place, but it was decided that a
more permanent structure would be an advantage, especially in the very regular times of heavy rainfall. The men's employers were Samuel McKinnon and Percy Smith, who traded as Tewantin
Sawmills and the method of removing hewn logs for transport to the sawmill at that time was for them to be dragged across the river from the eastern side where the logging took place and then to
be taken by truck to the mill. The method of crossing the river with the timber was by a winch which was built by Alan Buchanan and which was located on the river bank near the hut. The timber
was then stockpiled there awaiting road transport to the mill. At the hut, what is known as a `frogmouth' galley - so-called probably because of its open profile - was constructed on the north
side of the one-roomed cabin, and a rainwater tank was installed since, although the water in the Noosa River was suitable for bathing, it was somewhat too brackish to drink. Harry
Spring was a pharmacist, with shops in Cooroy and Pomona. He is remembered as a well-respected citizen particularly through his philanthropy, which included assisting needy school
children with their education by way of offering bursaries. He, however, liked to escape from his professional responsibilities as often as he could, to fish for bass in the more northern
reaches of the Noosa River. He and his friends were in the habit of pitching a tent adjacent to the hut which now bears his name and in the 1960s, after logging ceased, he purchased the
hut from McKinnon and arranged a lease from the then Forestry Department. Harry Spring died at the age of 92 years in 1999 and the lease on `Harry's Hut' reverted to the National Parks
administration at that time. Meanwhile, he had extended the simple one-roomed hut by connecting the galley to it by a roof made from iron taken from an old slaughterhouse and by
flooring the connecting area. In this, he used the somewhat ingenious method of including beer bottles in the foundation. He also added a verandah, using local timber in its construction.
Originally he used a simple kerosene lantern to light the hut but later purchased a small generator which supplied power to 70-watt electric bulbs. Significance Harry's Hut is a wellknown
site for all who travel or spend time in the more northern reaches of the Noosa River. It was a favourite gathering place for keen amateur fishermen for many years before
becoming a recent stopping place for river tours. It is a rare surviving example of a timber getters’ hut and has been adapted in an unusual form to a fisherman’s hut. The hut also
demonstrates the sustained importance of the local timber industry into the mid-20 th Century.
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Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Address
Citation - Accepted
Kin Kin
Masonic Lodge
Bowman St Kin
Kin
Significance The Masonic Lodge is important in demonstrating the development of Kin Kin in the early 20th century and the social aspects this encouraged. The Masonic Lodge is an
example of a regional timber temple, a category of building prominent in the streetscape and important in the social life of many country towns.
Kin Kin
Country Life
Hotel
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Cnr Main St &
Wahpunga Road
Kin Kin
The hotel was built in 1914. A two-storey, timber-framed and chamferboard-clad building with a hipped corrugated iron roof. The building has open upper-level verandahs on the two
street frontages with three-rail, timber dowel balustrades. The upper level has a gable pediment fronting Main Street. Windows are double-hung timber sashes with metal window hoods.
The fibre cement verandah valence and cast aluminum decorative brackets are later additions. The building is sited prominently in Main Street and terminates the eastern end of the
town’s main commercial street. It was damaged by severe storms in 1971 and 1985 which required the rebuilding of the entire verandahs and front gable. Significance The hotel is
historically significant for its association with Kin Kin’s earliest period of development. It is also a good representative example of a 2-storey timber hotel with verandahs. The hotel
makes a significant aesthetic contribution to the Main Street streetscape and is strongly regarded by the local community as a social venue.
St Luke’s
Anglican,
Church
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Grady Street
Kin Kin
Archbishop Gerald Sharp dedicated St Luke’s Church on 19 November 1926. St Luke’s is an attractive example of a small rural church, of weatherboard and corrugated iron roof, with a
front porch and Gothic windows. The interior is timber paneled panelled with some decorative detailing. There have been alterations to the building, eg, a small storage room was
enlarged and, later, another room was added at right rear for children’s playroom. A bell tower is located in the grounds to the right of the front entrance. The building was damaged in a
storm which destroyed much of Kin Kin in 1985 and was rebuilt as a result. The Roman Catholic Church was also destroyed in the storm but was not repaired. Significance As one of the
two remaining early churches in the Kin Kin area (the other is the Uniting Church at Kin Kin Junction), St Luke’s has historical and social significance for the community. The church
forms part of a social and religious network that reaches from Cooroy to Eumundi to Boreen Point.
Kin Kin
Junction
Uniting Church
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Pomona Kin
Kin Road
Kin Kin
The church was originally the Kin Kin Methodist Church. It was built by Bert Selzer with the people of the whole area of Kin Kin contributing to its building. The weatherboard church is
a simple rectangular shape, lowset, on concrete stumps, with corrugated iron gabled roof. The decorative detail on the porch cover is similar to that on the main roof and matches the
Gothic shape of the double hung windows. Built next door to the Kin Kin Junction State School, it was the first church in Kin Kin. Kin Kin Junction was intended as the original service
centre for the district. A house next to the former school site is known as “the school teachers house”. There was a sawmill and general store situated opposite the church. However, the
Junction’s importance waned as the village of Kin Kin of Old Wahpunga Road grew. Miss Sedgman, teacher, taught Sunday school under the school until the church was built. It was part
of the parish that incorporated Cooroy, Pomona, Kin Kin, Cooran, Tewantin and Eumundi. In the 1930s students from Kings College spent Christmas vacations in the district visiting
families and taking services in various churches. They travelled by horseback or motorbike. A Ladies Guild was formed in 1930, which organised monthly meetings and the Kin Kin
fetes, which were well known owing to the handcraft skills of members. Another guild was formed in 1959 when members combined with women from the Presbyterian church for
meetings. On 22 June 1977, Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches in Australia formed the Uniting Church of Australia. In the early 1990s, Kin Kin became part of the
Cooroy Parish and from 1998, part of a cluster of congregations, which join together for administrative purposes. The cluster is known as Uniting Church of Australia Cooroy, Pomona
and Kin Kin. The church was decommissioned in April 2002 and has closed as a church. Significance The former church is closely associated with the early development of the district
and is a good representative example of a small rural timber church in the Gothic-Revival architectural style.
Kin Kin State
School
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Main Street
Kin Kin
The school originally opened as the Kin Kin Township Provisional School in 1916. It became a State School in 1921, the same year as the former Crawford School building was
relocated to the site. The school was renamed Kin Kin State School in 1923. The school populations grew progressively and further extensions were made in 1927 and 1996. The
existing main block was built in 1961. The Head Teacher’s Residence was built in 1930. The existing school consists of a group of modern buildings principally set around a main 2-
storey 1960s teaching block. Adjacent to the school is a head teacher’s residence consisting of a high-set timber-framed and weatherboard-clad building with a corrugated iron pitched
roof in hip and gable form. Significance The school site is historically significant for its longstanding association with providing education in Kin Kin. The modern (post-1960) buildings
are not significant. The school residence is significant as a good representative example of the standard of accommodation provided to rural state school teachers in the early 20 th
Century.
Former ES&A
Bank and
Residence
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Main Street
Kin Kin
As Kin Kin began to develop as a township from around 1910, banking services were first provided by two banks which visited Kin Kin once a week each. These were the Commercial
Bank of Australasia and the English, Scottish and Australian (ES&A) Bank. A branch of the ES&A Bank was first listed in Pugh’s Almanac in 1916 indicating that the bank was
probably built in 1915. This era is consistent with the style and detailing of the existing building. Early photographs show the current building in 1931. Currently the building consists of
a small, single-storey, low-set, timber-framed, chamferboard-clad, corrugated iron gable-roofed banking chamber built to the street boundary with an attached low-set, single-storey,
timber-framed, corrugated iron hip-roofed residence with verandahs on two sides. The residence has been sympathetically extended at the rear in the late 20 th Century. The building is
currently used as an artist’s studio and residence. Significance The bank and residence is historically significant for its association with Kin Kin’s earliest period of development. It is
also a rare surviving example of a small rural bank with an attached manager’s residence which demonstrates the early 20 th Century business practice of providing staff accommodation in
country towns where private rental accommodation was not readily-available or was not of a sufficiently-high standard. The building also makes a significant aesthetic contribution to the
Main Street streetscape.
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Site
Memorial
School of Arts
Former Post
Office
Information
Source
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Address
Main Street
Kin Kin
Main Street
Kin Kin
Citation - Accepted
One acre of land was granted by the Department of Public Lands for the purpose of the building of a School of Arts on 8 August 1909. A School of Arts Committee was formed in June
1909 to raise funds for the hall and the building was opened on Friday, 14 July 1911. The building comprised a reading room, a library room and a hall, the size of the whole building
being 50 feet by 28 feet with a small stage on which stood a new piano, supplied by Mr Sedgman of Gympie. The timber came from J Hetherington of Kin Kin sawmills. J Donnelly was
the contractor and C Duffy of Pomona was the plumber. Mr H F Walker MLA and Mrs Walker plus 200 people were present at the opening, heavy rain preventing more from attending.
Dancing was enjoyed till midnight, when supper catered for by T Weaver of Cooran was served. Mr Walker then opened the building. Mr Charles Vines, Honorary Secretary, told those
present the building cost about £217 and the piano £79. The committee raised £80, government subsidy was £40 and another £20 was to come in. Bank loan of £150 was obtained, with
committee as bondsmen, and those present were asked to be subscribers to pay off the loan and raise money for improvements. Dancing continued until daylight, after which people left
to go home and milk cows. Committee members were Chairman, M McWilliams; Honorary Secretary, C Vines; F Bowman, Honorary Treasurer; and Committee J J Simpson, G
Westbrook, W Rohan, E Palmer, W Kelly and C Gallan. A photograph of the building taken in 1912 shows a plain timber building, much smaller than the building which exists today. It
was called the Kin Kin School of Arts. It is believed that the original building comprised most of the main body of the existing main hall, excluding the front verandah, from the front
wall to a line coinciding with the leading edge of the fourth side windows. The hall was the first of its kind in what was ‘the scrubs’ of the North Coast Line. The Kin Kin Township
School held classes in the hall for five years before a separate school building was provided. The hall was the venue for school concerts, boxing tournaments and travelling shows. A
nursery room was provided by the local branch of the QCWA at the back of the hall for the convenience of parents attending functions. The Queensland Country Women’s Association
established a branch in Kin Kin in 1925, but ceased to function in 1974. The present building is the culmination of several extensions. By the 1920’s a gabled wing had been added along
the western side of the original hall, which had also been extended to the rear, probably to its current size and now had a trellised verandah and porch. Another small gabled extension
over the verandah later provided a projection box for showing films. Significance The hall continues to be a major central feature of the district. It is used frequently for dances, social
functions, school and other concerts. Movies were shown over a period of many years.
The former post office is historically significant for its association with providing postal services in Kin Kin in the second half of the 20 th Century. A single-storey, timber-framed,
weatherboard-clad, corrugated iron gable-roofed building with a stepped parapet, post-supported street awning and timber shop front. Mail services were first provided to Kin Kin in
1907 when Mr McWilliams’ house opened as a mail receiving office. By 1914, a telephone exchange had been installed and was operating. These services were later carried out at the
side of Martin’s Store which stood between the ES&A Bank and the hotel but has since been demolished. In 1951, a new post office opened across the street with Mr J Burton as
postmaster. The new building was described at the time as, “the front room of the two-roomed structure is used for general business and the rear room is a separate telephone exchange”.
The post office remained in this building until at least 1979 but is no longer a post office and is currently used as a real estate office. Significance It is a rare surviving example of a mid-
20 th Century rural post office and makes a significant aesthetic contribution to the Main Street streetscape.
Tronson’s
canal
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
2km
downstream
from Noosa
River exit of
lake Cootharaba
A drainage canal with earth walls and floor. It is unlined and unformed. The canal is wide enough to accommodate a motor boat. The land on which Tronson's canal is situated was
originally selected by one Appleby who later became indebted to the store in Gympie owned by Walter Tronson's father. When Appleby saw no way out of his financial dilemma he
offered his farm to the storekeeper as liquidation of the outstanding sum in 1901, an offer, which was duly accepted. When Walter Tronson expressed his interest in becoming a dairy
farmer, his parents gave him the property. On it was a small, low three-roomed house, built by Appleby and Tronson used this as the nucleus for his own house. Walter Tronson called his
dairy farm "Ringwood" as it was on Ringtail Creek. His daughter, Viva Tronson, subsequently married Cyril Sealy, and her daughter Jan is the current owner of the farm. An innovative
instituted by Walter Tronson was the excavation of a canal to carry off surplus water from his farm. The canal runs virtually from south to north for a length of some 700 metres, draining
the so-called Sealey's Lagoon. This lagoon forms a swampy area on the farm and affected its potential productivity. The canal as constructed is quite straight, has a width of 6.7 metres
(22 feet) and an original depth of 0.9 of a metre. Its overall length is 1.4 kilometres. Walter Tronson began digging the canal from the lagoon to the river in 1922 but then did no further
work on it until 1929, at the beginning of the Depression. It then took him three dry seasons to complete the project as it traversed swampy terrain. He firstly employed a team of bullocks
to pull out the melaleuca tree stumps prevalent in the area, and the next season he began work with teams of horses, three to a team, using scoops to construct the drain itself. The project
was completed at the beginning of 1932 and it effectively lowers the level of water in the lagoon. This in turn lowers the water from the upper part of the farm thus improving the overall
productivity of the land drained. Significance The drain has withstood many floods since its construction and is still visible. Its entry into the Noosa River is marked by a sign, situated on
the western bank of the canal as it enters the river.
Cooroy Show
Society
Grounds
including
Pavillion
Cooroy State
School
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Bounded by
Garnet Street,
Cooroy Ck &
Mary River
Road
Elm Street
Cooroy
The Cooroy Reserve for Recreation and a Show Ground was proclaimed on 23 December 1908 and was increased in size in the 1960s. The first show was held on King George V's
birthday in June 1909. Charles Livingstone first laid down the concrete cricket pitch in September 1911. The opening match was a Ladies v Gentlemen's match with the men using pick
handles as bats and bowling left-handed. One hundred and fifty residents attended and the ladies won by 12 runs. Significance The Show Pavilion was erected in early 1925 and officially
opened at the show in August that year.
The school is a cluster of buildings on 4.58 hectares, located between the North Coast Railway line and Elm Street. The land is long and narrow and tapers off at both ends. The original
classroom building (with elaborate fleche) and three former Pomona classrooms are set amongst other timber buildings and several modern modules. There are also a resource centre,
two amenities blocks and a tuckshop. A large asphalt assembly/basketball ground is set behind the administration block. There are several play areas, including one sheltered place with
bright painted mural walls, and an extensive oval facing north. Car parks exist at the eastern side of the school for a drop off point for children with another for authorised vehicles at the
front entrance or southern end. A separate, low set, fenced pre-school centre is located on the eastern side of the school premises. Cooroy was formerly a timber reserve and in 1908, after
the lease was terminated by the government, the first town auction of lots was held. On 21 March 1907, a meeting of parents and residents met to decide on establishing a Provisional
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Address
Citation - Accepted
School. The Committee paid £36 to the Department of Public Works to enable a tender to be called to build the school for £125. The school which measured 24 feet by 16 feet with two
verandahs and a tank of a capacity of 1000 gallons opened on 18 January 1909. Mr R T Bolton was the headmaster and there were 18 pupils. The rapid settlement taking place was
shown by the 64 students enrolled by the end of the year. An assistant teacher, Miss Adeline Sivyer, had been appointed to help with the workload. A playshed, built at a cost of £36,
was provided, probably to allow classes to be taught under the school building. The school was closed for several months in 1910 to allow the building to be extended to double its size, at
a cost of £250. The enlarged building was provided with a large roof ventilator (fleche) and opened on 23 January 1911, with Mr W W Weeks as new head teacher. By February 1912, a
school residence was built for Mr and Mrs Weeks within the school grounds, with £100 being contributed locally. With increased enrolments causing overcrowding of classrooms,
another classroom was built in 1918 for 150 students. This building was doubled in size in 1930. A modern three roomed building replaced the original building, but it was retained as an
activities room. Another new classroom was added in 1958. The first classroom was pressed into service again as a classroom, but with another modern classroom erected as a
replacement, it became the library, heath services room and storeroom. The 1960s saw major changes at the school. A secondary department was established at the school stie in 1961
and a temporary classroom built in time for the 1962 school year, with another 2 classrooms added for the secondary department in 1963. Enrolment figures are not given in the school
anniversary book, but in the early 1960s, small outlying schools closed and students were bussed into Cooroy. Further building work was carried out to accommodate these pupils. The
opening of the Noosa District High School in 1963 relieved the pressure at the local school, but enrolments continued to rise. In 1968 Block B of two classrooms were constructed, and
three small classrooms in the main wing were formed into two standard sized classrooms, plus a duplicating room. Another classroom was added to Block B in 1971. In 1966, the school
was connected to the town water supply and earth closets were replaced with a septic toilet block. The mix of old and new buildings which comprise Cooroy State School, as at May
2003, cater for 500 students and 65 preschool students. There are 20 teachers and 10 part time teachers who specialise in music, drama, French, guidance and other fields. Significance
The school has social and historical significance for the town of Cooroy, as it has provided education for thousands of students since it opened in 1909.
Memorial Hall
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Maple Street
Cooroy
The Memorial Hall is a sawn timber building with a galvanised iron roof. It is a substantial building with a stage, an entry, and a supper room (food preparation). The building has been
extended over the years. The Memorial Hall contains Honour Boards of soldiers who enlisted from the Cooroy area in World Wars I and II, as well as photographs of those soldiers who
were killed in those Wars. The stage has a pressed metal ceiling and stage sides. The Hall is situated on land (2 roods 2 perches) that was reserved for a Recreation and Memorial Hall in
1926. The Memorial Hall was erected in 1926, and incorporated the former School of Arts building on the same site. This building was originally intended for use as a Shire Office when
built in 1911 and was used for four years as the town Post Office. The Noosa Shire Council approved the building plans on 20 November 1925, and the dedication service for its
completion was conducted by Reverend R. St George on Sunday, 15 August 1926. Major Edward Costello, MLA (Country Party Member for Carnarvon) officially opened on Friday, 20
August 1926. The hall was described as the Cooroy School of Arts Memorial Hall and was completed at a cost of £1 000; the School of Arts (valued at £500) was attached. Local
sawmiller, F. Fenwick, was the contractor. It was almost free of debt on opening, with £111 being collected at the opening ceremony and donations coming from farmers' cream cheques.
The hall was re-roofed and restumped in 1991-1992 at a cost of approximately $20 000. The Noosa Shire Council supplied half the funds, the Noosa Rotary Club $1 000 and the Cooroy
Memorial Hall Committee raised the remainder with the assistance of the Cooroy-Pomona Lions Club, Boral Timbers, Cooroy Sheet Metal Works and Cooroy Mitre 10 Store. The hall
was repainted in 2000. The Memorial Hall was used for showing movie films from the 1920s to the 1960s, as well as for a multitude of recreational and social activities dances, balls,
wedding receptions, church services, Anzac services, school concerts and speech nights, school and church fetes, indoor sports and arts and crafts, markets, public meetings, polling
booths, club activities. It has always been the venue for major community activities in Cooroy. Significance The hall demonstrates the early establishment of social facilities in Cooroy
and is a good representative example of an inter-war timber hall. The hall also has social significance to past and present generations through its long-standing and continued use for a
wide range of social activities.
Former
Ferguson’s
Auctioneer's
Office
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Maple Street
Cooroy
Ferguson’s Auctioneers Office (Former) is a low-set, timber-framed and timber-clad building with galvanised iron gable roof enfronted by a stepped parapet and post-supported street
awning. It has two shop front windows. Situated at the corner of Maple Street and what was the approach to the railway crossing, is the former Mining Exchange which was relocated
from Gympie. It was, for many years, occupied by auctioneer and real estate agent, W. I. Ferguson, at one time a Councillor and Chairman of Noosa Shire. His son, Allan William
Ferguson, continued the business for nearly another 50 years. The original building shown in photographs taken in 1911 was of shorter length, but similar in style. It appears to have been
extended in the early 1920s when Ferguson brought part of the old Gympie Stock Exchange Building to Cooroy after it closed in 1922. A low false ceiling has been added. Significance
The building is a good representative example of typical Queensland country town commercial building and is associated with the early development of Cooroy’s main business district.
Former Cooroy
Butter Factory
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Maple Street
Cooroy
The key building of note in the town is the former butter factory, built in 1930, to replace an earlier timber-built factory established in 1915. The factory was a branch of the Wide Bay
Co-operative Dairy Association Limited based in Gympie. Dairying prospered in the area from 1911 to the mid-1950s. This is a substantial industrial brick building with galvanised iron
roof. It is square in shape and has a concrete floor and concrete lining. The foundation stone for the substantial timber and iron building was laid in early November 1914 and was
officially opened in early April 1915. Its first day of operation was recorded in the Nambour Chronicle of 23 April 1915. The timber building was replaced in 1930 by a brick building.
The contractor was Mr Heavens. A modern churn was installed in October 1932. Later a diesel engine from the North Arm goldmine was installed in 1937, which was eventually sold to
Saudi Arabia. The butter factory closed in 1975 in spite of vigorous protests by farmers. After this date, milk and cream were transported by road to Gympie. The Wide Bay Co-operative
Dairy Association Limited sought to sell or lease the Cooroy Butter Factory in 1976. It was not sold and was left vacant for nearly eight years. A restaurant was opened in 1985 in
Sunshine Express passenger railway carriages on the butter factory sidings. It was known as Tric Tracs. The restaurant operated until 1990. The butter factory building deteriorated in the
following 15 years and sold in 1991. The Council then sold the produce shed from the complex for removal to Black Mountain in 1991. Significance The Cooroy Butter Factory is
evidence of past development of rural economies through developing agriculture and agriculture related industries such as the dairy industry.
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Source
Address
Citation - Accepted
Post Office
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Maple Street
Cooroy
Post and Telegraph facilities were available from Cooroy railway station from 1892. It moved from the station to the present site of the Post Office in 1911. In October 1911 townspeople and the
Commonwealth government decided to use the building originally built for the Noosa Shire Council Chambers in Cooroy as a Post Office. The building was a single-storey, timber-framed and
timber-clad structure with a pitched corrugated iron hip and gable roof form. Built to a standard design of the Queensland Works Department, the building features are open front verandah with
timber balistrade and a prominent front gable with vertical, slatted timber gable infill and a wide timber and corrugated iron window hood. It was leased by the Post Master General for the
purpose. The first Post master was a Mr Campbell. E.G. Chinnery was appointed permanent Post Master in April 1912. By January 1912 dairy farmers had very quickly taken up 18 private boxes.
The Post Office also took over the recording of rainfall from the railway station, in January 1912, and by February 1912 five new telephone subscribers had also been added. The Postal
Department installed a Morse Code telegraph instrument at the Cooroy post Office at the end of August 1912. The Commonwealth government decided to call tenders for a new Post Office to be
erected alongside the existing building in 1913. The land was purchased for £162.7.0 and the new building was erected by L. Baldry for £531.16.0 in 1914. Local sawmills supplied the timber.
Significance The building is a good representative example of a typical Queensland Post office building and has always been recognised as one of the most substantial early buildings in the town.
Methodist
(Uniting)
Church &
Church Hall
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Maple Street
Cooroy
After services had been held intermittently from 1905 to 1909 in the railway station master's house and in the Victory Hall in Cooroy, there were sufficient people interested for a piece of
land to be purchased from one of the Committee members, Alexander S. Douglas in 1910. Cooroy’s oldest church, the Methodist, was built in 1911 in Maple Street, and is now used as a
Church Hall, having been replaced by a larger building. The original structure is a sawn timber building with galvanised iron roof - a typical Queensland country church building. It has
been moved back to its present position, and provides disabled access at the front. This access is a modern concrete block addition and has changed the front elevation of the building. The
first trustees were C.G. Collett, B. Crozier, Thomas J. Dinsey, Alexander S. Douglas, R. Lack (local baker), A. Lister, E.J. Sneesby, S. Snodgrass and Stan Sivyer. They planned a church
building 40 feet by 25 feet wide. Social functions were held to raise funds. Collett Brothers donated log timber, Douglas and Millican gave in kind. Mr Tom Dinsey of Cooroy Mountain
donated two hoop pine trees for the floor of the church. A contract was let to H. Westbrook for £45 to cover labour on the building, and to A. Lister for plumbing for £30, and the stump
capping ceremony as held on 7 September 1911. A vestry with skillion roof and a tank were added at the back for a total of £18.16.0 in 1912. An organ was added for £1.17.6. The church
was finally opened on 28 January 1912 by Reverend Stanley Bath of Nambour. After several more fund-raising functions the church still had a debt of £250. The church people
persevered in the twenties and the Depression seeking to paint the church, maintain it and pay off the debt. Silver jubilee celebrations were held in 1938. After World War II as the
population increased and the church had a successful Sunday School, the trustees sought to expand. At first they sought the Pinbarren School. Then, in Reverend Meadmore's term, they
moved the church back on the block and planned a new church building. The stump capping ceremony was held on 11 October 1947. Cook and Kerrison were the architects and Gunders
of Gladstone built the church at a cost of £1 830 and £350 for furnishings, and it was opened by Reverend John Tulip on 18 February 1949. The church seating was constructed of silky
oak and the building could accommodate 100 worshippers. The sum of £436 was raised by the Ladies Guild, £274 from other donations, and £210 value of material donations. A Sunday
School was constructed under the church for £140, and a modern new kitchen at the front of the hall for $7,000 in 1977. Significance Cooroy’s oldest church is evidence of the early
developing social and cultural institutions of Cooroy and the importance of establishing religious institutions for places of worship such as a church.
Peachey’s
House
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Maple Street
Cooroy
Peachey’s house was built by the same builder at the same time as the one at 104 Maple Street. There was no upstairs bathroom. It was occupied for several decades by the Peachey family, who
worked at the butter factory. The building is a mid-set, single level timber-framed house set on timber stumps. The external walls are weatherboard-clad and the gable-fronted hip roof is clad in
corrugated iron. Interna walls are single-skin tongue and groove timber. Significance The house is a good representative example of an inter-war asymmetrical bungalow with front verandah.
Peachey’s house is evidence of the establishing and developing towns that were created to house the growing urban populations.
Former
Presbyterian
Church
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Maple Street
Cooroy
The Presbyterian Church in Miva Street, was built in 1929 and was opened on 4 August 1929. It replaced an older building and was the fourth church built in Cooroy. This is typical
country church building - timber and iron roof. It features a steeply pitched gable roof form with matching entrance porch and pointed-arch windows in a simple Gothic Revival
architectural style. The church has been altered slightly to be made into a private residence. The Presbyterian Church had strong support from the people of Scottish ancestry in Cooroy
including the Marryatt and MacKenzie families, owners of the store of that name. The church was well attended until the 1960s when attendances dwindled as the population of the town
was in decline. After the unification of the Presbyterian, Congregational and Methodist Churches in 1975, this building and the manse were sold to the Seventh Day Adventist Church. It
was used until a new church was built on Cooroy-Belli Road in 1995. The church was then sold. The existing building has been renovated and re-painted and is currently used as a private
residence. Significance The Presbyterian Church is evidence of the developing social and cultural institutions that were developing for the growing urban populations requiring
established religious institutions.
Cooroy War
Memorial
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Triangle
between
Tewantin Rd,
Kauri Sts &
Diamond Sts
Cooroy
The memorial monument was erected in 1922 as a tribute to those soldiers who died in World War I. A committee had been formed in December 1919 consisting of E.N. Wheeldon as Chairman;
Charles Bennett, Vice Chairman; W.F. Brittain, Treasurer and Secretary; and E. Bonnell, Herbert Hapgood, George King and J. Basing, Committeemen. The Department of Public Lands
approved of reserving the land which was gazetted on 20 March 1920. The Cooroy War Memorial is a granite and freestone monument of a soldier, with cornerpilaster in the Corinthian order.
Four marble slabs on each side list the names of the fallen soldiers. It stands 10 metres high with a statue of an infantryman on top a pedestal. The memorial is thought to have been constructed by
A.L. Petrie and Sons. It is of a humble soldier in the "Rest on your Arms Reserved" pose. It was completed at a cost of £350. General Sir Thomas W. Glasgow K.G.B. unveiled the memorial on
Monday, 17 April 1922, to be held in trust by the Noosa Shire Council on behalf of the people of Cooroy. The memorial's replica .303 rifle was stolen in February 1991. The Cooroy RSL paid for
its replacement at a cost of $1 200 by John Petrie of Northgate, grandson of the man who is thought to have originally made the memorial. The original white wooden fence has been removed. In
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Information
Source
Address
Citation - Accepted
1993 paving was put down, seats installed and roses and shrubs planted. A pine tree from a Gallipoli seed was planted in 1995 and two flag poles were erected. Significance The Cooroy War
Memorial is evidence of local townships developing social and cultural institutions for the growing urban populations remembering the fallen through memorials.
Black
Mountain
School
Buildings
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Black Mountain
Road, via
Cooroy
The first meeting advocating a school at Black Mountain and forming a Committee was held on 13 December 1912 at the home of Edward J. Bonnell. Inspector of Schools, Radcliffe,
visited Black Mountain, Happy Jack and Middle Creek in late March 1913 and met with the parents and 19 children on the 1.5 acre site selected on Edward Bonnell's farm at Black
Mountain. The establishment of a school at Black Mountain was approved on 7 June 1913, and classes were held temporarily in a building provided by Edward Bonnell. The building is a
typical Queensland country school building (timber and galvanised iron) featuring classroom and front and back verandahs. It is high set on a hillside. The building has external cross
bracing on the Black Mountain Road side. A separate building has been constructed beside the school in sympathy with the original design. Two separate additions have been added to
make it a larger residence. These additions do not detract from the building at all. There are eight mature pine trees in the yard which appear to date from the time that it was an operating
school. Also some of the old school fence survives at one of the front corners. The government teacher, Miss Catherine Alice Bergin, commenced in the temporary building provided by
Bonnell in July 1913. There was very little flat land for the school in the Black Mountain area. The land for the school was given by the Bonnell family. Edward J. Bonnell signed the
transfer documents for the land on 22 October 1913. Tenders were called for construction of the school on 20 November 1913. L.J. Baldry's tender for £253.60 was accepted on 24
December 1913. The school was opened on 5 August 1914 was closed for a short period in 1919 during the Influenza epidemic, and between June and September 1922. It closed
permanently on 31 December 1961. The school is now used as a private residence. Significance the Black Mountain school building is evidence of early education provision in a rural
community, where establishing schools was critical to the growing urban populations.
Federal State
School
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Bruce Highway
Federal
In 1906, a school reserve of 5.5 acres was proclaimed near Skyring Creek for a future school. On 31 August 1908, a public meeting was held to promote the building of the Federal Provisional
School at Skyring Creek. The Building Committee comprised J Tremeer, W J Watson, J McDonald, E L Pinwill and H C Wood (Secretary). Mr J A Canny, the District Inspector, recommended to
the Department of Public Instruction that a school be established. The Building Committee raised £41.16.0 as the local contribution (one-fifth of the total cost) of the school building. The school,
which measured 24 feet by 16 feet with 7 feet wide verandahs front and back, opened on 4 February 1910 with Miss Elizabeth Bogue as first head teacher. There were 24 pupils. The school
consists of the original timber building, plus several additions. The name, Federal State School, was something of an anomaly, and a change to Skyring Creek Upper was recommended. This was
not implemented. The school has retained the name of Federal, along with the nearby Federal Memorial Hall. As far as can be ascertained, these are the only references to the name Federal in the
district. It is thought to have derived from the town of the same name in northern New South Wales, from where some original settlers came to farm on Skyring and Cole's Creeks. Enrolments
increased and on 18 October 1926, a twelve-foot addition to the school opened. Mr Eric Rowe was Principal from 1922-1941. The school closed for six months during World War II because of
teacher accommodation difficulties. In 1954 the school gained a library, with the enclosure of a part verandah. By 1961, increased enrolments resulted in the school being extended by 15 feet,
with one verandah being incorporated into a classroom. A new library was formed and the old library became a Health Room. Enrolments again increased from 1976, when pupils enrolled
from the Christian Outreach Centre established at Mount Tuchekoi. By 1981 the Outreach Centre closed and the Federal School enrolment numbers declined. Relocatable classrooms have been
added to the school. The original tennis court is on the grounds, having been upgraded from an antbed surface, and is in regular use. Another building has been built to the north of the school,
which serves as the Administrative Block, the library and teachers’ day room. It is well-maintained. The school is positioned between the Bruce Highway and Skyring Creek at the back. A wellmarked
path leads to the Federal Memorial Hall, with which the school has a close association. Concerts and stage productions are held there. Significance The Federal State School is an
historical feature of the Skyring Creek area. The name commemorates the pioneering era of this district. Pioneering families attended the school. The school has social significance as a
cohesive factor for young families who are moving into the area on subdivided land and their children are using the local educational facility.
Federal
Memorial Hall
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Bruce Highway
Federal
A committee met on 12 July 1929 to discuss fundraising for the building of a public hall of 45 feet by 25 feet on land donated by Mr W McKenzie. Mr Albert Horrex Read was elected
chairman, Colin Gillies Christie Treasurer, Arthur Henry Kelloway Secretary and committee members included C Walkden and RJ Bunter. Messrs Read, Kelloway, Christie, James Lane
and Edward Lewis Pinwill were the first Trustees of the Hall. The CWA offered to raise funds with an Ugly Man Competition, Jumble Stall and an Art Union. The Department of
Education was asked for use of the nearby school for six meetings and for holding of six dances for fundraising. Frank Hayter donated one large Crows Ash tree, which was cut on his
property on Middle Creek Road and milled locally. This timber was used for the floor. The hall opened with a ball on 26 September 1930. The hall is a large weatherboard building, set on
concrete stumps, with a wide verandah added in late 2000. The CWA donated a piano in 1933 and was used for dances and other functions in the hall. In 1930 confusion over the names of
two local halls arose and the committee wrote to the Skyrings Creek Hall Committee requesting that the name of their hall be changed to Coles Creek. On 17 November 1945, it was
proposed that the name of the Federal Hall be changed to Federal Memorial Hall. Another changed occurred when the name of the Hall was changed to the Federal Memorial Community
Centre in 1974. Students from the Federal School celebrated Arbor Day when they planted trees in the grounds in September 1954. Moves to incorporate The Federal Memorial Hall Inc
were commenced in November 1989. In 1998, the Federal Memorial Hall and its resident Federal Playgroup received a $65,500-government grant for improvements to the hall (new
toilets, nursery, furnishing and equipment), a pool fence and a play-shelter. Significance The Federal Memorial Hall has historical and social significance because of its long association
with early settlers in the district and its provision of an entertainment and social venue for residents. It was established by members of the Federal Group. It is and has been a focus for
community activities since it’s opening in 1930. It also serves as a reminder of a group of dairy farmers who arrived from Federal, NSW, in 1906 to settle the area and establish a dairy
industry. It is thought that Federal received its name from that town which is west of Byron Bay. The Federal Memorial Hall is another instance of the important role played by QCWA
women in assisting with community infrastructure by the raising of funds. Their contribution could be publicly noted in the hall. The changing role of women in society is shown by their
prominence in administration and management of the hall from the 1980s.
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Ridgewood
Hall
Information
Source
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Address
Donnely’s Road
Ridgewood
Citation - Accepted
Ridgewood was first settled by Jack and Lavinia McKay in 1907 who had 15 children. The Ridgewood Hall was built in 1935. The inaugural meeting was held in February 1935 at
Lowe's corner and was chaired by L.G. Arscott. Five committee members were elected: J.P. Greber (Chairman), G.H. Smith (Hon Secretary), W. Lowe (Hon Treasurer), L.G. Arscott and
Richard R. Carter. The land on which the hall was built was donated by Peter McKellar. Timber from Peter McKellar's farm was milled by Ford Brothers. Wally Burgher constructed the
hall in seven months for the successful tenderer, W.H. Pickering at a cost of £420 and Harry F. Walker MLA opened the building at a grand ball in 1935. The building is a rectangular
sawn timber construction featuring a galvanised iron roof. It has been elevated on a combination of concrete block and concrete stumps. It features a verandah on the eastern side. There
are toilets and tanks adjacent to the building. An Honour Roll for World War II was erected after 1945. A patchwork wall hanging (Ridgewood Hall and areas industries) was installed
during the 1980s. The first dance was held in the hall on 1 November 1935. Church services have always been held in the hall when clergy have visited the Ridgewood - Carters Ridge
area. The building has been utilised by the dairy farming and rural residential community for almost 65 years for meetings, entertainment, craft and adult education programs. In
1998-1999 grants enabled the hall to be restumped, a verandah added on the eastern side and toilets and new tanks added. The verandah affords a most picturesque view across the cleared
land along Happy Jack Creek, which has been farmed extensively since the early 1900s. Significance Ridgewood is evidence of the developing social and cultural institutions that
provided a meeting place for the local communities.
Former
Maternity
Hospital and
Residence
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
George Street
Cooran
Forty one acres of land was purchased by William Martin, one of the districts earliest and most important settlers, on 6 April, 1891, for £550 and subdivided in 1911. The building is now
on 1012 sq metres of land. It may have been erected in 1912, as a private residence. George Renshaw, owner of the Cooran sawmill with Charles Loseby, is thought to have been
involved. It was converted to a hospital in the early 1930s, used mainly as a ‘lying-in’ hospital for mothers after delivery of a baby. Matron Napier is thought to have run it as a hospital,
although patients requiring medical treatment were mostly taken to Pomona Hospital. The built form is a timber dwelling house, with an attractive external appearance, including a bay
window. There are well kept gardens. It closed as a hospital after about ten years. Significance The building represents a significant factor of the history of the town, when it was still
relatively isolated, in its early provision of maternity and health services for women.
Cooran State
School
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
James Street
Cooran
On 19 May 1906, one of Cooran’s leading citizens, the pioneer, William Martin, agreed to transfer part of Portion 548 in the Parish of Traveston to the Secretary of Public Instruction for a new
school to be built. The building was erected by W Bytheway and was occupied on 28 October 1907. The sole teacher Frances Negus commenced classes before being officially notified to do so
by the Department, no doubt because of the bad state of the old Bellbird Flat School. The original Bellbird State School was moved to this site from nearby Bellbird Flat, because of the dangers of
the nearby creek, the muddy site and its distance from the main centre of the growing town of Cooran. Mr Charles E Ellison was the first head teacher (1909). In September 1914 the school was
raised onto higher stumps and extended by another sixteen feet to forty feet in length. This expanded into a complex of school buildings of which the earliest are timber and others are fibro-cement
and concrete block. The L shaped main building comprises the original school building, built in 1907 and extended in 1914 in the arm closest to the street, with a 1928 building (now housing the
library) being the other arm. This new wing was opened on 10 March 1928 a new wing was opened by the Minister for Public Instruction, Hon. Thomas Wilson MLA (Member for Fortitude
Valley, ALP) and the Cooran branch of the Country Women’s Association presented a piano to the school. This wing, which is roughly parallel to James Street, is now used as a library. The
original Bellbird school building is now used as a work area for teachers’ aides and administrative staff at the Cooran State School in James Street . A head teacher’s residence was built in James
Street, opposite the school. Significance The school has historical and social significance for the town of Cooran, as it has provided an education for hundreds of students since it opened in 1907.
This is evidence of increasing education provision for a Rural Community.
Memorial
School of Arts
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
King Street
Cooran
The land on which the hall is built was part of Portion 548 originally granted by Deed of Grant No 72082 to William Martin. The Federal Hall was built in 1906 by William Martin and it
is thought to be the central part of the Cooran Memorial School of Arts. William Martin was an earlier hotelier and selector. He was an astute businessman and a major benefactor to the
early township. The stumps for the new hall went in July 1906. It was built very quickly as, by 28 July ‘the finishing touches were being put to Mr Martin’s new hall up the hill from
McIlwraith’s Hotel.’ Two ante-rooms were included, ‘which will be useful to the hotel’. The need for the hall was shown by its multiple-purpose usage. Among the functions held there
were dances, concerts, theatrical productions and boxing matches. The community provided for its own welfare with the holding of the second annual concert and dance in aid of the
Gympie Ambulance Brigade, in 1910. It served as the returning office for the recently formed Noosa Shire Council elections on 29 April 1910. The first meeting of the newly elected
Council was held at the hall on 11 May 1910. A meeting at the hall on 27 September 1917 discussed the best means of paying a tribute to the men returning from the war. On 3 September
1926 two new shops that were constructed when improvements and additions were being carried out, were leased to the English Scottish & Australian Bank and Mr Joe Daly of Gympie,
a tailor, who opened a tailoring and mercery business branch of his business. The hall was used for the showing of movies, as happened in the halls of Cooroy, Pomona and Kin Kin. Mrs
Bryan, wife of Cr F Bryan, opened the library with 1000 volumes on 11 September 1926. In 1930 the Cooran branch of the QCWA donated money they had saved for their own rooms to
the School of Arts committee to assist them to improve the Memorial Hall. In return, the CWA was given free rental to a room in the hall. It is still occupied by the CWA. When the hall
was extended in 1947, timber for half the floor was donated by Straker & Sons, Cooran Sawmillers. Timbers included Tallowwood, Yellow Stringy Bark, Spotted Gum, Brush Box and
Iron Bark. This extension was funded by rental monies received from The Child Health Clinic for the use of one of two downstairs rooms. A barber rented another room, and in 1951 the
Commonwealth Bank used this same room. In 1958 a supper room was added, with a loan of £600 from the Commonwealth Bank. In 1965 Mrs Hinds presented a large photo of enlisted
men in World War I to the hall. CWA members have contributed to its upkeep. The Commonwealth Bank vacated their premises in 1970 and in 1984 the Child Health Clinic closed.
Structural changes have included the removal of the wall of the supper room, allowing more open space, and restumping of the hall by volunteers in 1986. In 1986, the hall was used for
indoor bowls, yoga, gymnastics, playgroup and private functions. When the Fruitgrowers’ Association wound up in 1992, it donated $90 000 to the hall. An annual ‘Back to Cooran’ is
held in the Hall, which is well attended by past and present residents. The School of Arts still stands as a large, timber-framed chamferboard building with a corrugated iron roof and
several gables, including one over the front porch. An internal staircase leads up to the QCWA Room. Two commercial premises are leased downstairs. Significance The Cooran
Memorial School of Arts is historically significant because of its long association with the town and its early connection with Noosa Shire Council. It has social significance because of
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Source
Address
Citation - Accepted
the central role it has played as a meeting place and venue for many kinds of entertainment and functions.
Former
Alfredson’s
Joinery
Complex (The
Mill Studio)
State
Heritage
Place
28 King Street,
Cooran QLD
The former Alfredson's joinery, pre-cut house workshop and sawmill complex at 28 King Street Cooran is evidence of the long history of timber-based industry in the Noosa Shire and
North Coast region. Timber was the stimulus for the development of Noosa Shire. Development of the area was underway by the mid 1860s with timber getters active along the Noosa
River and Kin Kin Creek. Alfredson, MA (sic) is first listed in the Queensland Country Post Office Directory of 1939, as a 'Joinery & Cabinet Maker'. Although he was rejected for
defence service during World War II, as he was in a reserved industry, his workshop supplied the Army with tent floors, tent pegs and other items. The business was also involved in
efforts to address the post-World War II housing shortage. The multi-level timber building, built on a sloping site with a combination of gabled, saw tooth and skillion rooflines, provides
intact evidence of a timber-based family business premises that was operated, expanded and adapted between 1933 and 1990. The current machinery within and under the pre-cut house
workshop, and most of the machinery in the sawmill section, was introduced by Alan. An original log carriage and its metal rails is still in situ in the rear sawmill shed, and original
timber rails survive running north-south along the floor of the pre-cut house workshop, along with some metal gantry rails running east-west across the ceiling.
The top level of the building, the former joinery, is now called the Cooran Trading Post and Second-Hand Dealers (furniture). The shop still contains a lathe which is supported on
concrete piers under the floor. There is no internal stairway between the former upper and lower workshops. Many of the building's stumps have been replaced by Alan over the years,
and since 1990 he has also enclosed parts of a skillion roofed extension to the building west of the pre-cut house workshop.
Significance Alfredson's joinery, pre-cut house fabrication workshop and sawmill (former), built and expanded between 1933 and the 1950s, is important surviving evidence of the
timber industry in the Noosa Shire and the North Coast (now Sunshine Coast) region. The timber industry played a major economic role in the history of the North Coast region, which
from the 1860s was one of the most important timber producing regions in Queensland. Alfredson's is important evidence of the manufacturing aspect of the area's timber industry from
the 1930s to the 1980s. Its location at Cooran was close to timber supplies, and the adjacent railway facilitated the shipment of the joinery's products. Alfredson's Joinery complex is a
rare surviving example of the pre-World War II era of sawmilling and joinery operations on the North Coast, and is also a rare example of a post-World War II pre-cut house workshop.
The lathe and log carriage are important as rare surviving equipment from those operations. In its layout the Alfredson's Joinery complex is important in demonstrating the linear
operation of a timber manufacturing process.
Former Cooran
Uniting Church
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Queen Street
Cooran
The Cooran Methodist Church was opened on 23 June 1912. It was deconsecrated 1996/7 and later sold for use as a private residence. It is low-set, single storey, timber framed a
weatherboard clad building, with a central gabled corrugated iron roof. It is lined and ceiled in tongue-and-groove pine. A small porch at the front is similar in style, and serves as an
entrance. The building is designed in the prevailing neo-Gothic style of the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries and expresses the simplified carpentry details of small rural churches. Some
of the furniture from the Church was purchased by parishioners before the Church was sold and some items were given to the Uniting Church in Pomona. A silky oak communion table
given in memory of Mrs Horsey is in that Church, placed beside the pulpit. The top part of the red cedar lectern in the Cooran Church was made by Herbert Page, and the base was made
by Alfredson’s Joinery. When the Church closed, the Uniting Church at Pomona requested the lectern and it is now used constantly in that Church. Significance The former church has
historical significance for the Cooran community as an early church to be developed in the town. It is a good representative example of a small neo-Gothic timber church.
St Patrick’s
Church
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Church Street
Pomona
The church was built in 1921-22 on a site donated by Mr Vincent Bazzo from timber cut and donated by Mr Arthur Bull. Local men cleared tall trees from the site before building could
begin. Timber for the altar was given by Mr Patrick Dwyer. Over 40 feet long and 28 feet wide, the cost was 900, including furniture. It was opened on 26 March 1922. Mr Arthur Brady
carried out extensions and alterations to the church some time after 18 May 1937. A rectangular chamferboard building with a high gabled corrugated iron roof. The front porch has a similar
roof, both have a small fretwork panel. Double Gothic windows in sidewalls. In the mid-1970s the congregation decreased owing to the decline in the population of Pomona, and the Parish
Priest, Father Hegarty, moved to Tewantin, which along with Noosa was growing rapidly. The Pomona Church closed, as Father Hegarty was unable to be present at all centres.
Parishioners travelled to the Cooroy Church to attend Mass. Father Basil Meaney replaced Father Hegarty as Parish Priest in 1983 and with curate Father Howell to assist with duties, the
Pomona Church was re-opened, with Masses being held on alternate Sundays with Cooroy. A retired Priest, Father Tom Boland, now lives in the flat at the Presbytery, behind the Church
and Pomona Church is now open on a regular basis. In 1997, the Catholic Church celebrated its seventy five year presence in Pomona with a reunion that attracted large numbers of
former and current parishioners. Significance The church has historical and social significance because of its long association with the Pomona community as a place of religious
worship.
Former St
Patrick’s
Catholic School
(Private
Residence)
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Church Street
Pomona
After three years of fundraising, Archbishop James Duhig laid the foundation stone for St Patrick’s School on Sunday 30 March 1947. The Presentation Order of Nuns arrived before the building
was completed and taught school in the church from February 10 1947 until the school was completed. The original building is a large two-storey brick building with gabled tiled roof. There is a
high oblong section on lower right hand corner, with a flat roof, and with several small windows inset in the wall. Occupied by the nuns and children from 22 October 1947, it was opened and
blessed by Archbishop Duhig on 30 November 1947. Pupils came from some distance to attend St Patrick’s. Several girls caught the train to and from Cooroy each day, walking up and down a
bush track to the station. Others came from Kin Kin and other districts by bus. Due to declining student numbers, the school did not open for the 1972 school year and the Presentation Sisters were
relocated to other parishes where the population was growing. The school was sold in the early 1980s to Councillor Joe White of Noosa Council for use as a residence. After Joe White and
his son were tragically killed in separate accidents, Mrs White sold the building. It has since been used as a private residence and for a time as a movie and camera museum. Significance
The former school has historical significance because of its educational contribution to the town of Pomona.
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Former Convent
of the
Presentation
Sisters (The
Nunnery)
Information
Source
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Address
Church Street
Pomona
Citation - Accepted
The Presentation Sisters who came to teach at St Patrick’s Catholic School arrived in February 1947, before their residence, the Convent, could be built. Mr Louis Bazzo vacated his home for the
nuns to live in the meantime, and lived in a flat next door to his brother Ernie’s garage in Factory Street. This period was to be for three months, but it was five years before sufficient funds could
be raised to purchase a house from Mrs Ann Bolecwski and moved to the church grounds just below the school for use as the nuns’ residence. The residence that arrived is a timber house, high set
on lower sloping side, with high gabled roof with feature in centre top. Front and side verandahs, with front steps leading to porch with ornate fretwork panel in roof. Entry to the property is by a
timber lychgate-like structure located at the top of the front yard. The number of students declined at St Patrick’s School by the 1970s, as the population of Pomona decreased, and the school
closed in 1972. The Convent was used as a rental property until it was sold in 1988. The house has only been known as ‘The Nunnery’ since it has been privately owned in the 1990s.
Significance The former convent is historically significant because of its contribution to the religious and educational life of Pomona children. Its function as a residence has continued
beyond its earlier use.
Noosa
Agricultural,
Horticultural &
Industrial
Showgrounds
and Pavillion
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Exhibition
Street
Pomona
The first Noosa Show was held in November 1910 at the present Showground’s. With the exception of a few years, they have been held annually there ever since. The first pavilion was burnt in
1954 and the present one was built in its place the next year. It The place contains a large rectangular weatherboard building with a corrugated iron roof and six casement windows in the sidewalls.
The windows have corrugated iron awnings over them. There are cattle yards and a show ring on the large area of land belonging to the Show Society. There is a small ticket booth near the
entrance gates. The Show Arena has benches for seating in a circular pattern. There are two smaller structures nearby. It is currently used as a Fitness Club. Significance The showground’s and
pavilion are important features of the district’s agricultural, horticultural and industrial economy. They are historically and socially significant because of their long presence in the community, and
as a place for interaction between local residents and those from further a field.
Former Page
Motors
(Pomona
Driveway)
Part of Former
Railway Hotel
(Hollyhock
Cottage)
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Factory Street
Pomona
Factory Street
Pomona
Bob Page was the younger son of Herbert William Page, who founded Page Furnishers Pty Ltd. He had mechanical experience and training in his father’s garage after leaving school. He served in
the transport division of the Australian Army during World War II. During this time, he met United States servicemen who told him of the latest developments in garages and service stations.
After he was discharged from the Army, Bob obtained an ex-serviceman’s loan and built a modern service station set back forty feet from the footpath. This large building is set back from the
street, with a wide forecourt for cars to pull in to buy petrol. Five businesses associated with motorcars operate from within the building. Petrol bowsers were placed on a concrete driveway some
distance from the edge of the kerb, being the first to do this in Pomona. The garage and workshop were large and airy, unlike the small and dark service centres previously used. Bob Page
registered his business as Noosa Motors on 26 April 1946. The name was later changed to Page Motors. A large workforce of local people was employed in the car showroom for Ford cars, for
which Bob had the franchise for 50 years, in the spare parts department, and the repairs section. He sold the business in 1984 to Fredericksen’s Transport. The name has since been changed to
Pomona Driveway. Significance Page Motors was evidence of the developing transport and communication networks and infrastructure that were to service the local community.
Hollyhock Cottage is a remnant of the former Railway Hotel, which was built by H Bushnell in 1911. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Railway Hotel catered especially for Commercial Travellers,
who arrived at the town at the Pomona Railway Station opposite the hotel. In 1962, Gus and Mary Braidotti purchased the Railway Hotel. They already owned the Pomona Hotel, on the western
side of the railway line. By the mid-1960s, Pomona’s population was declining and there was insufficient business for two hotels in the town. Mr and Mrs Braidotti surrendered the licence for the
Railway Hotel and had it partly demolished. The building is low-set weatherboard, with a high gabled corrugated iron roof and an iron awning over the front verandah. It is set back from the street
with a garden in front. In reducing the size of the building some of the timber went to Tewantin to build two flats, some was stored in a local sawmill yard and the remainder downstairs portion of
the hotel was made first into three small flats, and later into three shops one of which is the current Hollyhock Cottage. Significance The building has historical significance because of its
connection with an important hotel in Pomona.
Part of Former
Railway Hotel
(Memory Lane
Antiques)
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Factory Street
Pomona
The former Railway Hotel was built by H Bushnell in 1911. In 1921, licensees of the Railway Hotel, Mr and Mrs Errol Osborne, built a multi-purpose hall, the Majestic Hall, near the hotel and
applied for permission to erect an awning over the footpath, and to make up a footpath, with an offer to share half the cost. The Council approved this. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Railway Hotel
catered especially for Commercial Travellers, who arrived at the town at the Pomona Railway Station opposite the hotel. In 1962, Gus and Mary Braidotti purchased the Railway Hotel. They
already owned the Pomona Hotel, on the western side of the railway line. By the mid-1960s, Pomona’s population was declining and there was insufficient business for two hotels in the town. Mr
and Mrs Braidotti surrendered the licence for the Railway Hotel and had it partly demolished. Some of the timber went to Tewantin to build two flats, some was stored in a local sawmill yard and
the remainder downstairs portion of the hotel was made first into three small flats, and later into the three shops one of which is the current Memory Lane Antiques. Memory Lane Antiques is one
of three premises, formed out of the demolished Railway Hotel which functioned in Pomona from 1911 to 1965. The other two premises are Pomona Produce Store and Hollyhock Cottage
adjoining the site. Significance The building has historical significance because of its connection with an important hotel in Pomona.
Part of Former
Railway Hotel
(Pomona
Produce Store)
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Factory Street
Pomona
Pomona Produce Store is one of three premises formed out of the demolished Railway Hotel. which functioned in Pomona from 1911 to 1965. The other two premises are Memory Lane antiques
shop and Hollyhock Cottage to either side of the produce store. The building is a low-set weatherboard structure, with corrugated iron roof and bull nosed awning over front footpath. The internal
rooms are tongue-and-groove and have high ceilings. The former Railway Hotel was built by H Bushnell in 1911. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Railway Hotel catered especially for commercial
travellers, who arrived at the town at the Pomona Railway Station opposite the hotel. In 1962, Gus and Mary Braidotti purchased the Railway Hotel. They already owned the Pomona Hotel, on the
western side of the railway line. By the mid-1960s, Pomona’s population was declining and there was insufficient business for two hotels in the town. Mr and Mrs Braidotti surrendered the licence
for the Railway Hotel and had it partly demolished. Some of the timber went to Tewantin to build two flats, some was stored in a local sawmill yard and the remainder downstairs portion of the
hotel was made first into three small flats, and later into three shops one of which is the current Pomona Produce Store. Significance The building has historical significance because of its
connection with an important hotel in Pomona.
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Uniting Church
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Factory Street
Pomona
Methodist services were first held in the Pomona district at the Interdenominational church which opened c1910, then in the hall, until 1921 when the Methodist Church was opened in its
current position in Factory Street. The structure is a rectangular weatherboard building with a gabled iron roof. A covered port with sets of steps on either side has a similar smaller gable
roof. Gothic windows are features. A ramp for the physically disabled has been added at the front of the building. The first minister of the church was Rev Grayson. The fittings in the
Church were made locally. Messers Herbert Page and Scope made and donated the pulpit and Mr D McDonnell donated the seats. The church was free of debt by 1922. Two benzine
lanterns were first used for lighting and carbide lights replaced these. The Ladies Guild raised funds for electric lights in 1942. The former Kareewa Methodist church was moved to the
site in 1925 and added to the back of the original church. Following the closure of the Methodist Church in Cooran 1996, some of the furnishings from that church were purchased by
parishioners and removed to the Pomona Uniting Church. These included a silky oak communion table which was placed beside the pulpit in the Pomona Church, and a lectern, partly of
red cedar, made by Herbert Page and Mervyn Alfredson, was also moved to Pomona and is used constantly by the church. A hall at the rear of the church is used for church functions and
is also hired to organisations for use at functions. The Methodist Church became the Uniting Church in 1977 following amalgamation of the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational
Churches. From 1998, the Pomona Church has been a cluster of congregations, which have joined together for administrative purposes. The cluster is known as the Uniting Church of
Australia: Cooroy, Pomona and Kin Kin. Significance The church has historical and social significance because of its long association with the Pomona community as a place of
religious worship. It is used as a meeting place for other organisations.
Former Noosa
Shire Council
Chambers
(Noosa
Museum)
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Factory Street
Pomona
The building was the former Noosa Shire Council Chambers, which were built in 1911. The structure is a high-set timber building with a corrugated iron gable roof. A side wing with additional
gable roof has been added and the original front verandah has been removed. The original front gable decorative detailing has also been removed and the gable treatment modified. The
underneath section has been enclosed. It was used as the administrative centre of Noosa Shire until 1980 when the Shire headquarters moved to Tewantin. The front verandah was enclosed in
1929 and the Council boardroom was also added at the rear of the original building. In 1960 additions were made for the Shire Clerk’s office, with a separate external set of stairs, and a public and
press gallery was erected at the rear of the boardroom. Downstairs, the front was enclosed with battens and a brick storeroom was built for storage of papers. In 1981 the Cooroora Historical
Society Inc was formed and used rooms as their meeting place. The local Girl Guides Group also used rooms for meetings and activities. In 1985 the Cooroora Historical Society started the Noosa
Shire Museum and the Council allowed the Society to use the premises for that purpose. Further alterations have been made in recent years, by enclosure of the downstairs section for display
purposes, and in 2000, a ramp for the physically handicapped was built at the right side and rear of the building. Significance As the original administrative centre of Noosa for seventy years, the
building is of historical significance for Noosa Shire.
Former
Pomona Butter
Factory
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Factory Street
Pomona
The dairying industry commenced in the Pomona area in the early 1900s. The planting and successful growth of paspalum grass by John Turnbull and Torrens at Kin Kin and the arrival of
experienced dairy farmers from New South Wales, who saw the potential of the land and introduced efficient methods of felling trees to clear the land for sowing pasture, established the industry
quickly. Two dairy co-operative companies competed for the cream from Pomona and Cooran farms - Wide Bay Co-operative Dairy Association and Caboolture Co-operative Dairy Company
and cream was railed to each factory after their establishment in 1907. The Caboolture Dairy Co-operative Association advertised in the Noosa Advocate from 1917 urging dairy farmers to
co-operate ‘in their own interest’. The Wide Bay Co-operative Dairy Co in Gympie had opened branches at Kin Kin in 1912 and Cooroy in 1915, and in 1919 the Caboolture Dairy Co-operative
opened the Pomona Butter Factory at Pomona. The Pomona Butter Factory had its own railway siding line running from the main North Coast Line to the factory to collect butter. Special cold
wagons were provided, with spaces between outer and inner walls, into which blocks of ice, supplied by the factory, could be slipped down. The dairy industry in Noosa Shire, and elsewhere in
south-east Queensland, started to decline after the end of World War II, owing to labour shortages, competition from margarine and the progressive loss of its most valuable market when the
United Kingdom turned to Europe for agricultural produce imports and ultimately joined the European Union. The number of suppliers to the Pomona Butter Factory dropped from 150 in 1967 to
about eighty in October 1970, staff was reduced from six to one and the factory closed on 31 October 1970. The factory then became a collection point for taking cream to Caboolture. Suppliers
could still collect butter, cheese and cattle food at the combined shop/office at the factory. The butter factory building has been incorporated into one of the modern furniture factories of Page
Furnishers Pty Ltd. It is located on the western side of Factory Street, between the street and the North Coast Railway Line. Externally, the visible remains of the butter factory are sections of
rusted corrugated iron roof, at the northern end of the furniture factory. Internally brick walls and walls covered with small white ceramic tiles are visible. This section was the ‘butter room’
where the churns were placed for making the butter. In 1971, the furniture factory belonging to Page Furnishers, opposite the butter factory in Factory Street, burnt down and while it was
being rebuilt, the Page family rented the butter factory as its temporary premises. In 1974, Page Furnishers Pty Ltd bought the butter factory and the land on which it stood, and commenced
building the steel factories around the former butter factory. The remnants of the butter factory which still exist on the original site in 2001 are described above. It is understood that a name plaque
has been covered by the front wall of the furniture factory. Significance The Pomona Butter Factory is of historical significance to the town.
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Page
Furnishers P/L
Factory
Factory Street
Pomona
The Page family, founders of Page Furnishers Pty Ltd, has a long and distinguished connection with Pomona and the district. In 1906 Horace John Page, with his sons Herbert and John, purchased
ninety acres of land at Boreen Point, on Lake Cootharaba. The Page family built a home, established a garden and built cottages for renting to holidaymakers. Herbert Page travelled around the
district, making furniture from local timber, until, in 1919, he and his family moved to Pomona. In June 1919, Herbert Page purchased two roods 28 perches (2731 square metres) of Portion 94V
in the County of March Parish of Tuchekoi, next to the Noosa Shire Chambers, in Pomona. He built a small woodworking workshop on this land, which is the location of one of the present
factories, purchased three existing shops and a furniture factory slowly evolved. His two sons George and Bob joined him in the business, until they served in the Australian Army during World
War II. George Page rejoined his father in the furniture factory after he returned from Army service and was managing director after Herbert Page retired in the 1950s. George Page’s son Allan
started work in the furniture factory when he left school in 1968 and is the current managing director. Bob Page branched out in his own motorcar business, as Page Motors in Factory Street,
where he also employed local people, until his retirement in 1984. The first building burnt down in a fire in 1971 and while the present modern factory was being constructed, the former Pomona
Butter Factory on the opposite side of the road was used as a factory. The former butter factory and the land on which it was erected (three acres and thirty-three perches or 1.25 hectares) were
purchased by Page Furnishers Pty Ltd in July 1974. In the early 1960s, George Page obtained a bank loan to update his equipment and successfully tendered for contracts for government work.
Page Furnishers was one of the first factories to install a robot welding machine at a cost of $100 000 in 1984, a move which was innovative and cost-effective, at the same time as it relieved
workers of tedious repetitive jobs. The company has had an apprenticeship policy from 1935 when George Page was apprenticed to his father. Six or seven apprentices were being trained in wood
machining, cabinet making and French polishing in 1999, and the company has received an award for its continuing commitments in this field. The factory has been computerised since 1990.
New factories have been built in succeeding years, the latest in 2000. A section of the butter factory, which opened in 1920 and closed in 1970, can be seen in the powder coating room. The
factory is a large supplier of educational and hotel equipment and employs approximately seventy workers, from Pomona and surrounding towns as far as Gympie and Nambour. The contribution
of the furniture factory to the economy of the town and the district over a period of eighty years is of great significance. The founder of the factory, Herbert William Page, was nicknamed
by local people ‘Blue Shirt’ Page because of his habit of always wearing a blue shirt to the workplace. This was to distinguish him from Harold Page, who was not related, and who
operated the Majestic Hall and Theatre where silent movies were shown in the 1920s. He was called ‘Picture’ Page. Significance The place has historical significance for its longstanding
use as a furniture factory and for its association with the Page family who have been prominent in the local area’s history.
Pomona Post
Office
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Memorial
Avenue Pomona
A postal service was provided at the Pomona railway station for many years by Mrs Kelliher, the station mistress. A post office was then erected on the corner of Reserve Street and Memorial
Avenue, where the ANZ Bank is now located. That building was sold and re-erected elsewhere in Pomona when the present post office was built at Memorial Avenue in 1936. Alterations have
been made to the building. Tom Wheeler took over as Postmaster in 1982, and in 1983, his son, an architect, designed an extension to the back of the building and changed the space to provide
living quarters for Mr Wheeler and his family. This consisted of a living room, bedroom, ensuite, kitchen, and a landing was added on to the back. Significance As an early post office in the town
which is still used as a post office, the place has a strong historical association with the early development of communication networks in the district with the meaning of criterion a. It is a good
representative example of its type within the meaning of criterion. The post office is a good representative example of the standard Type T22 design produced by the Queensland Works
Department in the 1920s and 1930s.
Former
Kybong School
(Pomona Scout
Group Hall)
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Mountain Street
Pomona
In June 1960 a public meeting held in Pomona decided to reform a Scouting Group. Kybong School (from south of Gympie) was bought and moved to the site in Mountain Street in 1961, after
land was cleared. The building was moved by Lionel Hempsall of Kin Kin, on one of his timber jinkers. The roof was taken off for the trip, as it was too high for the electricity lines. A police
escort accompanied the move. Sixty Scouts and Cubs attended each week. They were under the direction of District Commissioner J Hassett and Scoutmaster S Howell. The Governor of
Queensland Sir Henry Abel Smith officially opened the building on 5 January 1963. Significance The former Kybong School has significance because of its long association as an education place
to the Pomona community. Future use of the structure for a Scout hall is evidence of developing social and cultural institutions for the growing urban population.
Memorial
School of Arts
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Reserve Street
Pomona
A committee was formed in 1919 to raise funds for a School of Arts. The Pomona Memorial School of Arts was opened in 1926. The contractor was R Wardrop. It measured 42 feet (13 metres)
long by 34 feet (11 metres) deep. The hall space was 34 feet (11 metres) by 22 feet (7 metres) and included a small library. The timber was donated by Richmond River Milling Co. The Ladies
Auxiliary had raised funds and the building was free of debt when opened. An extension including a kitchenette was added in December 1931. The local branch of the Country Women’s
Association opened a rest room in the hall at that time. The building was used as a Court House until the Pomona Court House was built in 1934. About 1946, a hall, which was part of the
Gaythorne Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, was added to the northern end of the hall. Arthur Brady, carpenter, may have removed the hall from Brisbane and extended the Pomona hall in the
1940s. Community groups, such as Meals on Wheels, use the hall every day, the Red Cross Opportunity Shop (downstairs), by schools for concerts, rehearsals and speech nights. At election time
it is used as a polling booth (all levels of government). This hall is celebrated in the novel “A Descent for Gossips (1960)”, by award winning Queensland author, Thea Astley, who lived at
Pomona as a young school teacher. Of special interest are two Honour Boards, which are hanging on the internal wall on the left of the entrance. Both honor local servicemen who lost their lives
in World War I. One is for men from the Pomona area (27 names) and the other from the Pinbarren district (31 names). Some names are repeated. The Pomona board is a plain square one while
the Pinbarren board is rectangular with a more elaborate frame, carved leaves and decorative curlicues. It has the Australian Coat of Arms at the top and inscribed words (Lest We Forget) with
inset photos of each serviceman named on the board. Significance The building has historical significance as a focus of social and organisational activities since 1927.
Ambulance
Building
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Reserve Street
Pomona
The Pomona Ambulance service may have commenced as early as 10 October 1912, as a bank account was opened on that date with the English Scottish and Australian Bank under the
name of ‘the Pomona Ambulance Brigade Account’. The first ambulance centre (or Shelter Shed as it was known) opened in February 1919, close to the Pomona Railway Station. It was
a sub-centre of Brisbane at that time but in February 1919 it was given self-governing status. Funds were raised locally, with dances, sports events and other functions, and in 1921 a
Dodge Motor Ambulance was purchased to replace the horse and sulky and hand-litter previously used. The superintendent’s residence was in Ambulance Street and in June 1921, the
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Shelter Shed was moved next door to the house. The Pomona Ambulance Committee continued to raise funds and in 1946, purchased a block of land in Reserve Street, next to the ES&A
Bank. In 1949 the superintendent’s residence was moved to that site, and re-erected above a new brigade building. The foundation stone was laid on 23 December 1971 by Sir Thomas
Hiley, with Keith Midgley, Superintendent, and Dr V R Luck, Chairman of the Ambulance Committee. The bottom floor served as the Ambulance Station, while the upper floor was the
residence for the officer in charge. This situation has continued until the present time (2001). Significance The building is of historical significance as it represented the centre of health
care for many years. As the first permanent home for the ambulance service has been incorporated into the headquarters, the building is of historical importance.
Former
Pomona State
School
(Pomona &
District
Kindergarten
& Childcare
Centre)
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Stan Topper
Park, Reserve
Street Pomona
The building is the former Pomona State School, built in 1907 and officially opened in March 1908. It was preceded by the first schoolhouse built in the same position. This was the
Pinbarren Provisional School, built on a School Reserve of five acres (two hectares) in the middle of forest near the North Coast Railway Line and not far from the Pinbarren Siding
(shown as School Reserve, Portion 144v, on Gympie Land Agents District Map, Shire of Widgee, under Proclamation dated 29 January 1908, for Auctions of Portions 292 to 297 and 299
to 302). The school opened on 31 August 1897. As more settlers arrived, the original school building became too small when the number of students increased. It was then moved to the
western corner of the School Reserve and modified as a residence for the new headmaster, George Grant Dan. That school building was later moved away from this site, altogether. A
new two roomed school (the subject of this citation) was built by E Bytheway in 1907, at a cost of £813/17/- . It opened in March 1909 as the Pomona State School. Extensions were
made to the school in 1913 and again in 1928 to accommodate the ever-increasing enrolment of pupils. Late in 1935, two new buildings were officially opened to add a Rural Department
to the School. Pupils from as far away as Eumundi, Tewantin, Cootharaba, Carters Ridge and Kin Kin travelled by bus and train to Pomona to attend vocational classes. A forestry plot
was established on the former grounds of the Pinbarren State School, near Pinbarren Mountain, in 1941. It is still in existence in 2001 and is known as the Pomona District Memorial
Forestry Plot. A further development occurred in 1945 when Queensland’s first secondary department was opened at Pomona State School. Small regional schools closed as transport
facilities (and roads) improved and in 1945 the Ringtail School and the Cootharaba Lakes School were moved to Pomona and added to the State School for use as the Library and Infants
Room. In 1946, Boreen Junction (Kareewa) School was also relocated to Pomona and became the Science classroom. Following the move of Pomona State School to its new location in
Station Street (in the Ellis Estate, named after the original selector), a proposal by the State Government to sell the former School Reserve for public housing met with strong opposition
from the residents of Pomona and Cooroy. Local residents agitated to have the land retained as a public park. In August 1985, the Minister for Lands, Forestry and Police, Bill Glasson,
flew to Pomona by helicopter, landing on the School Reserve and met with local identities. Noosa Shire Councillor Peter Hansen spoke to the Minister of the importance of retaining the
area as a public park for community use. He also said the old schoolhouse could be used for the Pomona Kindergarten, which was using an unhygienic and crowded enclosed space under
the Pomona Memorial Hall for their premises. The representations were successful and in December 1985, the Pomona and District Kindergarten Association was granted a licence by
Noosa Shire Council to occupy the old school building from the beginning of the 1986 school year. The Pomona and District Kindergarten has been in operation in the building since that
date. It is affiliated with the Crèche and Kindergarten Association of Queensland and functions under its principles. Significance The building is historically significant because of its
social and educational importance in Pomona and the district. It is located on its original site. It is socially significant because of its continuing role in pre-school education.
The Rotunda
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Bazzo Park
Pomona
The Rotunda is situated on land to the southern of the Pomona Memorial School of Arts. It was opened just before the start of World War II and was intended to commemorate the
sacrifice of servicemen in the previous war. Significance The Rotunda has historical and social significance because of its association with members of local families who served in
World War I. As far as is known, it is the only one of its kind in Noosa Shire.
Pomona Hotel
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Station Street
Pomona
The first Pomona Hotel was built by 1906. It was a single storey building with nine bedrooms and a four-stalled stable and a large yard at the back. James G Mitchell was named as
Licensed Victualler in 1907. Burnett remained as Licensed Victualler until 11 September 1912; by 22 April 1913 the license had been transferred to James Connolly. James Connolly was
the licensee in January 1913, when the building was burnt down in a fire. C Walter was the landlord and as the building was insured, he built the present two-storey building shortly
afterwards. The hotel escaped serious damage in another major fire in the centre of Pomona in 1939, when shops in Memorial Avenue were destroyed. Jack Chapple had a barber
shop/billiard room in the hotel for forty-seven years in the current lounge area. In 1917, P Murrihy was the proprietor and the hotel had a ‘spacious billiard room’. Some of the
owners/licensees over the years have been (since 1949) – Bonutto, R M McGee, S D Eberhardt, Bill Davies, Ted Troyahn, Gus Braidotti. Braidotti also owned the Railway Hotel in
Factory Street, but surrendered the licence in 1965 after which it was mostly demolished. In 1969, the Sherman family bought the hotel and it was managed by Keith and Dawn Page, Bob
& Pat Schofeld, followed by Max, Bruce and Beryl Marian, the Turner family, Keith and Kay Murphy, Alan and Ruth Hess and Peter and Maureen Hansen. In 1986, Don Askew and
Dennis Sherman ran the hotel. In 1981, an artist from Boreen Point won an artistic merit award in a national ‘Paint a Pub’ competition, for a picture of the Pomona Hotel. The main dining
room is called the Darby Room, and was named after a well-known and popular Pomona resident, Darby Schreiber, who died in 1985. Significance The Pomona Hotel has historical
significance as the first major accommodation and refreshment venue in Pomona, and because of its continuity as a hotel from 1906 to 2001. It is a good local example of a 2-storey
timber hotel from the early 20 th century.
Cemetery
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Pomona-Kin
Kin Road
The first burial was of John Boynton Gosley, 51 years, farmer from Yorkshire England. His son John was killed the following year, while hauling timber and is also buried in the
cemetery. One third of the deaths on the cemetery register were children six weeks or less. Another one third were of deaths from accidents. In 1906 two boys, William Richards and
Allan Armitage drowned in a water hole near the Junction of Summit Road and Cootharaba Road where their families had selections. Significance The cemetery is highly significant to
the local families and as a record of the district’s deaths.
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Alkira
Apartments
Noosa Drive
Noosa Heads
Alkira Apartments were designed by Noosa architect Gabriel Poole, and built in 1997. Poole is an internationally respected architect and a winner of the Queensland Robin Dods Award
in 1991, the National Robin Boyd Award in 1991 and the National Gold Medal award ‘...for his lifetime contribution to Australian architecture’ in 1998. The design incorporates two
three-bedroom apartments and an owner’s penthouse. The building is an example of unit architecture that blends sensitively into the sloping block on which the complex is built, and
which complies artistically with Noosa Shire Council’s height limit of twelve metres for the area. The site overlooks Hastings Street, the Noosa River and Laguna Bay. Innovative
features of the design include a system of electronically operated louvres on frames for the inaccessible high windows in the master bedroom, metal sunshades along the northern
windows and louvred ventilation panels in the bedroom corners (that avoid the use of air-conditioning). Significance The building is of architectural and aesthetic significance because of
its association with renowned architect, Gabriel Poole and the development of the regional ‘Sunshine Coast School of Architecture’.
Cooloola
Cruises
Slipway
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Gympie Terrace
Noosaville
The slipway was originally installed in its present site by a plumber from Gympie, Harry Stolberg. It has been in use ever since its installation and for this study, the main item for citation is the
winch motor which is the original machine used to power the slipway. Power for the winch is now electrical, but the winch is otherwise in its original state. Ownership of the winch (and
slipway) was firstly with Stolberg, then, on his death, to Harry Walker, the son of a long-serving MLA for this area, then to Howard Parkyn. Significance The slipway, and in particular its
winch is rare surviving evidence of boating activity on the Noosa River and its foreshores as it was in the beginnings of its exposure to public use. This usage consisted mainly of tourism and
commercial fishing and it helped establish the Noosa River as a venue for recreation, which has grown to very large proportions at the present time.
Maisies
Restaurant
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Gympie Terrace
Noosaville
The Massoud family came to Australia from Lebanon in 1900 and settled in Noosaville. The matriarch of the family, Mrs Maisie Monsour, who was born in September 1908, said that as well as
operating boating businesses on the Noosa River and taking tourists to the North Shore, her father built and operated a number of shops in the area, the first was on the corner of Gympie Terrace
and Edward Street in 1912. This shop traded in groceries and another, built in Tewantin shortly after, traded in goods generally. `Maisie's' was built in 1921 and was always a restaurant. Mrs
Monsour recalls an anecdote, which she jokingly suggested, earned the restaurant the honour of being Australia's first `drive-in restaurant'. World War II, members of the AIF (Australia's Army
force) were stationed at Sunshine Beach and Munna Point, where they had a series of DUKW amphibious vehicles, known affectionately as `Ducks', on hand. The Massoud family and the
Australian servicemen developed a close relationship with each other and from time to time arrangements were made with `Maisie's' to have the soldiers supplied with meals. The custom was that
the army `Ducks' would come up the river, drive onto the land opposite `Maisie's', then, very impressively drive over the street, collect the meals, pay for them, and then reverse the process,
disappearing once more down the river to return to the army base, complete with provisions. `Maisie's' remains a restaurant to the present time. Significance `Maisie's' has been a part of
Noosaville's heritage for some seventy-five years since its establishment by one of the districts pioneering business families and remains a meaningful icon to this time. It is closely associated
with the Monsour and Massoud families.
Massoud’s
Jetty
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Gympie Terrace
Noosaville
The Massoud family came to Australia from Lebanon in 1900. They settled into family businesses based on small shops, river trade and early tourism ventures, such as taking visitors to the
coloured sands on the North Shore. To enhance their ability to operate adequately on the river, the family built facilities, including a slipway and the focus of this citation, a mooring jetty, the
jetty being used primarily for embarking and landing passengers travelling on their ferry, River Light, which also carried children to school. It is significant that when the new ferry service
between Harbour Town Tewantin and Noosa Heads was commenced only some four or five years ago, the first of its fleet was called River Light, and Mrs Maisie Massoud was invited to
`christen' it as a mark of respect for the Massoud family's river involvement and also as a link between times past and the present. Significance The Massoud jetty recalls the formidable
presence that the Massoud family had on the development of the Noosa River as a source of recreation and income.
Massoud’s
Slipway
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Gympie Terrace
Noosaville
The Massoud family has had a long and valued association with Noosaville and the Noosa River since the year 1900 and the family's slipway has been in operation ever since its construction for
Ted `Jiddy' Massoud in 1923. Originally the slipway was operated by a hand-operated winch which now adorns the entrance to nearby Massoud's Park, but this has now been by a replaced by a
modern, electrically operated facility. Significance The Massoud boat slipway has been In use since 1923 and is closely associated with the early development of Noosaville and the Noosa River.
It is also closely associated with the Massoud family who have been prominent in the local area’s history since 1900.
Wallace House
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Wallace Park
Noosaville
Wallace House, as it has come to be called, was built for Arthur and Alice Wallace. Arthur Wallace was born in Mackay, North Queensland in 1876 and after his education, became a
qualified surveyor, joining the British Colonial Service in 1904 and working in the Malay States. He married Alice Dimmock, daughter of the mayor of Mackay in 1901, and
subsequently retired from the English Public Service in 1929. Seeking a satisfactory place in which to retire the couple bought the land on which their house was to be built, in 1930, from
Robert Adams. The original owner was Walter Hay and archaeologists speculate that somewhere very near Wallace House there remains the charred ruins and rubbish dump of Hay's
homestead `Hilton Park', circa 1870, but the only visible evidence from this period is a rampant rose briar bush. The Wallace homestead was designed by Brisbane architect, R.M. Wilson,
the father of a currently well known Brisbane architect, Blair Wilson, whilst the builder was Dick Caddell from Cooroy. Alice Wallace died in 1953, but her widower lived on in the
house, looked after by one of his daughters, Jean Dunstan, until his death just one month short of his 93rd birthday. The house was retained by the Wallace family until 1978, when it was
sold and then was subsequently purchased by Noosa Council from Mooloolaba Downs Pty Ltd in 1992. Noosa Council redeveloped the home as a centre for the then newly-formed
Noosa Shire Arts and Crafts Association Inc., a joining together of fifteen separate affiliated groups, but the centre, which had been proving very adequate for its function, was badly
destroyed by fire on the night of Friday, 26 March 1999. The building remained unused until insurance matters were settled and then a further redevelopment and expansion plan was
drawn up, with it once more being opened in its new presentation, in February 2001. Significance The building is a good representative example of a 1920s house.
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Doonella
Cottage
Martin House
Information
Source
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Address
Doonella Street
Tewantin
Doonella Street
Tewantin
Citation - Accepted
As Tewantin began to develop, the town became popular as a holiday destination especially for those visitors who enjoyed fishing. Pelican Street and Gooloi Street, as Poinciana Avenue
was known at that time, gravitated to become the commercial hub of Tewantin, particularly prior to the construction of the present Doonella Bridge. Consequently streets nearby to it,
with either access to, or with views to the water, were the next to be of interest to those meaning to have an association with the town. Consequently, Doonella Street, running basically
along the northern rim of Lake Doonella as it does was opened up soon after Tewantin began to develop, and a series of houses, ranging from substantial residences to small holiday
cottages, were erected there. The residence at 49 Doonella Street is a good example of the latter type of this building. Significance As a rare, early example of a small two-bedroom house
of unpretentious but neat appearance it is significant in demonstrating the lifestyle of the era it represents.
The house at 67 Doonella Street, Tewantin was built in 1928 for Mrs Martin, the wife of the proprietor of Martin's Tewantin Hotel. She was also proprietor of the hotel which was located close by
on the corner of Doonella and Pelican Streets looking over the river until it burned down in 1940. Daniel Martin was an astute businessman like his father William, who was the second proprietor
of the Halfway House on the Tewantin/Gympie coach route. Daniel Martin, also ran a daily coach service between Tewantin and Cooran, carrying mail. The Martin family established hotels in
both Cooran (The Railway Hotel, 1889, coinciding with the opening of the railway) and Tewantin (The Tewantin Hotel, 1910). The Martin house was, and still remains, a very handsome example
of the architecture of its period. However, Mrs Martin fell quite seriously ill soon after her home was constructed and sold it to Mr Jack Parkyn. He was the father of Howard, the son of Richard
and a member of the well known pioneering family who were involved with the development of Tewantin and Noosaville (boating, fishing, early tourism and land development) for three
generations. The Parkyn family ran the house as their family residence for a number of years. The home subsequently changed ownership over the years, including to owners being Alan and Lyn
Clamps. Significance It was built by a prominent businessman of Tewantin, and soon changed ownership to just such another well respected owner in Jack Parkyn. It was, and remains, a sound
example of the architecture used by such owners in its time.
Former Shop
(Pelican Place)
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Pelican Street
Tewantin
At the time of the building of the shop, and for a time thereafter until the present Doonella Bridge was built in 1970, Pelican Street, which led directly from the old bridge, formed the
main business section of Tewantin. The shop was located between other important early businesses in Pelican Street, such as the San Elanda guesthouse (on the site of the present Council
building) and Martin’s Tewantin Hotel on the opposite side of Doonella Street, until they both burned down. The building was constructed by Frank Bickle for the hardware business,
Frank Bickle and Son, but soon thereafter became the pharmacy of James ("Jimmy") Sweet and over the years fulfilled many roles, including those of newsagency, barber and billiard
saloon, real estate and a ladies' fashion shop. Noosa Council purchased the shop for use by community groups. It has been renamed `Pelican Place'. The premises are currently used as
office accommodation by Council’s Plumbing Services after extensive renovations to replace damage caused by white ants. Significance The shop is a good example of retail premises of
its period, particularly with the display of verandah posts, which support its awning. It is the only retail building remaining on its side of Pelican Street, standing alone among residences
and not far from the Noosa Council Chambers.
Royal Mail
Hotel
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Poinciana
Avenue
Tewantin
As its name implies, the Royal Mail Hotel was closely associated with the mail service to Tewantin. Tenders were first called for a mail run between Gympie and Tewantin (described as
Newsa) via Cootharaba and Cooloothin in May 1873. There was definitely an opportunity for a hotel in Tewantin and the Royal Mail Hotel had several predecessors. R.A. Richardson
erected eight rooms for traveller’s accommodation in December 1874. By 1878 Pillow's Tivoli Hotel was in existence, by November 1883 it was known as the Club Hotel when it was
burnt down. There was also the Commercial Hotel, which opened in 1882 and burnt down in 1889. Tenders (labour only) were called for the erection of a hotel on this site, The Royal
Mail Hotel was built in February 1882 for Ned Murdock, the driver of Cobb & Co's coach, It was built by Smith, White and Saunders and was opened quietly in May 1882. Murdock's
residence was moved to be beside the hotel. The Royal Mail was always a well kept and respected accommodation venue and it was renovated and extended from time to time to keep it
up-to-date and of a high standard. Hotel transport consisting of buggies and coaches, for the use of hotel patrons, met the trains at Cooroy once the rail line had reached there in 1891, a
service claimed by Monks to have been `... a first for the area. John E. Kinmond, an early timber getter and bullock driver operating in the Kin Kin scrubs, was licensee by 1888. He then
sold to Major J. Myles in 1889 who in turn sold to John Tait. The Tait families were quite prominent in Tewantin's local history, Mrs Tait being the widow of Jimmy Miles, a former
Cobb and Co manager. A bathhouse was constructed in 1895 and the hotel was further enlarged in 1896. The hotel left the Tait’s care when it was sold to John Donovan by 1930, the
father of Lionel Donovan, who operated a cinema in Poinciana Avenue in Tewantin for many years. Donovan died in 1935 and his widow sold the business to the Queensland Brewery in
1936. The Royal Mail was totally destroyed in a spectacular fire on 11 March 1940. The licensee was G. Mann formerly of Home Hill. It was rebuilt in basically its present form by
Woolloongabba master builder Stanley Samuel Garrick and was officially reopened on 9 July 1941, with its bottle department being added in approximately 1980 over the site of the then
staff quarters which had been demolished specifically for that purpose. Further renovations were added in the 1990s, all in keeping with the original style and appearance of the 1941
building so that in its present, repainted state it represents an excellent example of the traditional good quality `country hotel'. Significance The Royal Mail Hotel is significant in that it
firstly carries on the name of its original namesake hostelry, constructed almost 120 years ago, and secondly that it retains the ambience of a hotel of the period of its World War II
rebuilding, in both its exterior appearance and in its fittings such as doors and windows. At the same time it provides modern service facilities and remains a focal point for townspeople
and visitors to congregate.
Donaldson
Residence
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Poinciana
Avenue
Tewantin
The Donaldson house was built at around the turn of the century by the uncle of the present owner. His name was Clarence Ross. Olive Donaldson's uncle Clarence rented the house to a
retired policeman just before the beginning of World War I and his wife moved to Cooroy. Mrs Donaldson's parents then bought the house after the end of the war (in 1920). Significance
Olive Donaldson has had a lifelong association with Tewantin. Born Olive Ross, she became Olive Macklin after her first marriage. During that time she served as a Councillor for the
Noosa Council, with much distinction and good repute. She remarried to George Donaldson and still lives in her family home. The house was among the earlier ones built in Tewantin, is
a good example of its type and is in excellent condition structurally.
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Site
Tait House
Information
Source
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Address
Poinciana
Avenue
Tewantin
Citation - Accepted
The house was built by a Mr Bowden for Charles and Emma Tait (nee Duke) before their marriage on 6 November 1920. Emma Duke was the daughter of James Duke, the Shire’s first
chaiman. Charles was related to the Tait’s who owned the Royal Mail Hotel. John Tait (Charle’s father) had married Catherine Myles, widow of John Myles. In 1897, the hotel became
Tait’s Hotel. Catherine Tait continued as licensee. Charles Tait was a boat proprietor. He provided boats for hire and took the hotel guests on fishing trips and pleasure cruises on the river
and the lakes. The house has remained in the Tait family since its construction. Esme Tait (the daughter of Charles and Emma Tait) has lived in the house for her entire life. Significance
The building is a good representative example of an early Twentieth Century timber house. The house is also associated with the early residential development of Tewantin.
German mines
in RSL Park
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
RSL Park,
Poinciana
Avenue
Tewantin
Mine warfare has been a part of military weaponry for a great many years, with naval mines having been used for at least two hundred years. Mines on the one hand are important
weapons because of their great destructive power, yet on other hand, are somewhat ineffectual in their destructive ability, since they favour neither the ships of the enemy, nor of the navy
of the country that lays them. They can also drift aimlessly at sea for a great many years and cause destruction well after the termination of the hostilities for which they were laid. The
latter of the two mines cited could, for example, well have been laid during World War I and drifted ever since that time, even though it was not found until the World War II was in
progress. The first of the mines found on the local coast was recovered at Teewah Beach after World War I. It is oval in shape with no identifying marks upon it. It is understood to be of
German origin and was defused by RAN Lieutenant Patrick Keane, (who died in 1922) with the assistance of two Naval Petty Officers. The second mine is also said to be German. It is in
the shape of a sphere and it was recovered and defused at Sunshine Beach during World War II. Local resident Howard Parkyn stated that another local, Bob McGarrety, found the mine.
Significance The significance of the mines lies more in the category of memorabilia rather than in traditional local history. Nevertheless, they associate the Noosa area with worldwide
conflict.
Tewantin War
Memorial
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Town Square
Tewantin
The Tewantin War Memorial was constructed and funded by the citizens of the local community as a mark of respect for those of their fellow townspeople who died in the First World
War. The founding president of the Tewantin Sub-Branch of the Returned Services' League, Mr William John Ross, was largely responsible for rallying the people to create the memorial.
The memorial was unveiled and dedicated by Major-General Sir William Glasgow upon its completion and it remains the focal point for the regular and well-attended services, which
take place around it. Such occasions recognise fallen servicemen and servicewomen in such observances as Anzac Day, Long Tan Day and the loss of the hospital ship Centaur, and
recall the end of World War I on Remembrance Day each year. The memorial states the closing year of the war as being 1919 instead of the usual 1918. The reason for this is that,
although the armistice, which ended the fighting in the war, was signed on 11 November 1918, the formal Treaty of Versailles, which officially ended the conflict was not signed until 28
June 1919. Significance The War Memorial remains a focal point of war remembrance for the people of the Tewantin area.
Former Coach
Waiting Room
(Private
Residence)
Former
Ringtail Hall
(Tinbeerwah
Hall)
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Kerr et al
(2002) &
TNP 2006
Ward Street
Tewantin
Sunrise Road
Tewantin
The core of the Ward Street cottage was the waiting room of the Cobb & Co staging post at Cooran and it was transported to Tewantin by its original owners William John Miller and his
wife Mary Ellen in 1875. Significance The cottage was one of the oldest residential buildings in Tewantin and is associated with the early development of the town.
This hall was originally the Ringtail Hall situated at the bottom of Ringtail Range. It was built in 1924. The Ringtail district declined at the end of World War II when the saw mill closed,
the State Government resumed several farms as State Forest and then developed pine plantations on the land of the sawmill. In 1952 a meeting was held at Mr & Mrs Larsen's house to
discuss building a hall. A trust was formed and eventually they purchased the Ringtail Public Hall. The Ringtail Hall had been built as the Richmond River Mill Hall on Ringtail Road in
1924. There were several houses surrounding the hall and sawmill owned by Doyle's Richmond River Sawmill Company. The Ringtail Hall was removed from Ringtail Road to its
present site at Tinbeerwah in 1955 by volunteer labour. Significance The hall is historically significant because of its social and cultural importance in Tinbeerwah and the district. It is
socially significant because of its continuing role in forming associations and social occasions.
Mill Point
Settlement Site
State
Heritage
Place
Elanda Pt,
Cootharaba
QLD
The Mill Point Settlement Site on Lake Cootharaba contains remnants of a private 'company' township based around a sawmill and sustained by timber extraction from local forests which
was in operation from the late 1860s until the early 1890s. The Mill Point Settlement was built in a swampy area on the edge of Lake Cootharaba. The swamp was progressively filled in
with sawdust to create and extend the timber yards. Initially timber was taken from Portion 1 and logs were rafted down Kin Kin Creek to the lake and held in a yard by a double line of
piles forming a breakwater. During later sawmill operations, timber was taken from as far away as Mount Coondoo and hauled to a tram terminus. By the early 1870s loads of timber
were sent along Cootharaba Road to Gympie. Title records indicate that the property and its subsequent subdivisions changed ownership a number of times until it was transferred to the
Queensland Government in 1983. The Mill Point area was gazetted as part of Cooloola National Park in 1985. A commemorative plaque was laid at the site in 1988 near the junction of a
walking track from the Elanda Point camping ground to the south and tramway formation to the west. The local branch of the National Trust of Queensland erected a stone on 24 April
1993 bearing the inscription, In memory of the European settlers buried at Mill Point Cemetery, and engraved with the names of persons buried at the cemetery. On 22 June 2004, six
interpretive signs, designed by QPWS Elanda Point and Noosa Shire Council, were installed at key locations around the site describing some of its rich history.
Significance The Mill Point Settlement Site is important in demonstrating part of the pattern of Queensland's history, being associated with the development of the timber industry in the
late 19th century. As remnant evidence of a substantial timber extraction and timber processing enterprise and timber settlement in the Cooloola area from 1869 to 1892, it is important in
illustrating the pattern of settlement in the Noosa hinterland. It was one of the first and most successful timber mills in the Cooloola area and played an important role in legislative reform
in the boiler industry in terms of health and safety following the boiler explosion of 1873. The Mill Point Settlement Site has social significance to the local Boreen Point/Noosa
community.
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Site
Kin Kin
Sawmill
Information
Source
State
Heritage
Place
Address
1 Sister Tree
Creek Road Kin
Kin
Citation - Accepted
The Kin Kin Sawmill, established in 1948 by Arthur Hempsall and his son Lionel, is located midway between Gympie and Noosa in the Sunshine Coast township of the same name. The
Kin Kin sawmill was originally established to produce wooden packing cases for the local fruit growing industry. The North Coast was an important fruit growing region and during the
first half of the 20th century, Kin Kin was one of the State's most productive banana growing areas. The sawmill produced cases for bananas, pineapples, beans, apples and plums. Cases
were railed from Pomona railway station to destinations as far a field as Brisbane and the fruit growing areas near Stanthorpe. The mill originally cut soft wood timber for cases. This was
cut to the required lengths and then packaged for delivery to the farmers who assembled the cases. The mill subsequently moved into cutting timber for pallets, and hardwood milling for
electricity pole cross-arms and railway sleepers. The HempsalI family owned the mill until 1991 when it was sold to Geoff Ellis. It continues to operate as a small mill with much of its
original machinery and layout still intact. In 2007, the mill was cutting softwood for assembly into packing cases for glass. It is one of the few sawmills of its era that is still operating on
the North Coast.
Significance The Kin Kin Sawmill (1948) is important in demonstrating the development of Queensland's timber industry insofar as it was established when the North Coast (now the
Sunshine Coast) was one of the most important timber producing regions in the state. During the period that the mill was established, the North Coast contained more sawmills than
anywhere else in Queensland. The sawmill is uncommon in the region as an intact example of a small saw mill originally established to produce timber for fruit packing cases. Mills of
this type were common in the fruit growing areas of the State until the late 1950s when the use of wooden packing cases declined.
Cooroy
Railway Station
State
Heritage
Place
14 Myall Street,
Cooroy
QLD
The 1891-1916 timber railway station building at Cooroy is one of only nine nineteenth century timber country station buildings that remain on the North Coast Line, which extends from
Brisbane to Cairns. Only two of these stations also have an extant goods shed and crane. The Cooroy station building, located between Maple Street and Elm Street in Cooroy, is clad in
hardwood weatherboards, and has a gabled roof that extends to form an awning over the platform, supported by curved timber brackets. This particular style of station building was built
in Queensland from around 1884 to 1906.
Significance Cooroy Railway Station is important in demonstrating the extension of the North Coast line during the late 1880s and early 1890s to link Gympie, Maryborough and
Bundaberg with Brisbane, which facilitated the extraction of timber from the North Coast area from the late nineteenth century and the expansion of agricultural settlement (principally
associated with dairying) from the early twentieth century. The extension of the station building several times between 1891 and 1916 reflected its increasingly heavy use during this
period. Cooroy was also an important access point for tourists travelling to Tewantin and Noosa from 1891 to the mid 1930s. The relationship between the station building, its platform,
and the goods shed with its timber platform and metal whip crane, is important in demonstrating the functioning of a small but busy country railway station. The layout of the Cooroy
station building, which includes toilets, a waiting shelter, a ticket office, and a signal cabin, is also representative of the standard Queensland Railways designs of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries.
Pomona Police
Station
Residence &
Former Lockup
and Pomona
Court House
State
Heritage
Place
Red Street,
Pomona
QLD
The Police and Courthouse precinct at Pomona is bounded by Red Street and Rectory Street, and contains three significant 1930s government buildings, all of which are still in use in
some form. The close spatial relationship of the wooden police residence (& former station), courthouse, and lock-up is typical of pre-World War II Queensland police precincts, and the
history of the site reflects the history of the Pomona district.
As the district developed and evolved, so too did the system of policing in Queensland. The Police Act 1863 centralised the system under a Police Commissioner, and in 1864 the
Victorian model was applied to the police force. The ranks of Chief, District and Mounted Constables were replaced with those of Inspector, Sub-Inspector, Sergeant and Constable.
Pomona's location is roughly half way between Cooroy and Cooran, and half way between Gympie and Nambour, and at the time it was 12 miles from nearest policeman at Tewantin.
Noosa Shire's population was rapidly increasing due to timber getting, and the influx of settlers and their labour; that undesirables were also passing through Pomona on their way to
Gympie; and that Pomona had two banks, two butchers, two stores, a hotel, a state school and a newspaper.
Significance The place illustrates the relationship between the evolution of the site and the history of the development of the Pomona township and the Noosa Shire. The changes to the
site also reflect changes within Police and Justice Department policies and practices. In addition, the site illustrates the use of standard building types developed by the Department of
Public Works as an economical means to build symbols of "law and order" in developing townships. This grouping of three government buildings, built in the same year, on the same
site, is important in demonstrating the principle characteristics of, and is a substantially intact example of, a small town police station / courthouse group, and the work of the Department
of Public Works, including the development of various building "types".
Former
Cooroora
Masonic
Temple
State
Heritage
Place
Station Street,
Pomona
QLD
The former Cooroora Masonic Temple was erected in 1923 and is opposite the railway station in the small Sunshine Coast hinterland town of Pomona.The land on which it is situated was
part of an Agricultural Allotment of 160 acres occupied under license by Robert Peter Grant in 1896. The area developed in the early 20th century with an economic base of timber,
dairying and fruit growing. A local fruiterer and restaurateur, William (Bill) Hodge, who had joined the Lodge in 1920, was Master in 1924-25. In 1925 he began a project to embellish
the temple that was to take nine years to complete. Working mainly in the evenings he painted trompe l'oeil murals on all four internal walls of the lodge room. These murals are replicas
of those that decorated the Masonic Temple at the Criterion Restaurant, London and were featured in an article in the September 1921 edition of an English Masonic magazine, the
Masonic Record. Using the small black and white photographs accompanying the article as a guide, Hodge reproduced the scenes of classical and biblical architecture on the walls of the
Pomona temple. Between 1925 and 1928 he painted the Eastern and Western walls and between 1932 and 1934 the southern and northern walls. Hodge mixed the lead-based paints
himself, using a neutral palette of beige, grey, black and white. During both periods he worked by kerosene light, as electricity was not supplied to Pomona until 1941. Hodge died in
1949 and is buried in Pomona cemetery. The subjects and symbols depicted are integral to Masonic tradition and philosophy. Although materially modest in value, reflecting the
economic status of the small community who met there, the murals provide a sense of richness and elegance to what would otherwise be a very simple interior. They are valued and have
been cared for by the members, remaining in good condition.
Significance The former Cooroora Masonic Temple is important in demonstrating the development of Pomona in the early 20th century and the spread of Freemasonry through
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Site
Information
Source
Address
Citation - Accepted
Queensland in the wake of European settlement.
The interior murals, which embody much of the symbolism and beliefs of Freemasonry, are thought to be unique in Australia. As the original murals appear to have been destroyed by
bombing during World War II, the Pomona paintings may now be the only record of this work, originally carried out in the temple of the Criterion Restaurant in London. The former
Cooroora Masonic Temple is an intact example of a regional timber Masonic temple, a category of building prominent in the streetscape and important in the social life of many country
towns.
Halse Lodge
State
Heritage
Place
17 Noosa Drive,
Noosa Heads
QLD
Halse Lodge, formerly known as Bayview, then as Hillcrest Guest House, is a two-storeyed timber guest house which was substantially rebuilt during the 1920s. The land on which
Bayview was erected was granted to James Forsyth, and comprised 80 acres. Title records indicate that although the land was purchased in 1871, the register was not actually signed until
December 1880. The site of Halse Lodge has been associated with boarding/guest house accommodation from the early 1880s. Halse Lodge is the only guest house in Noosa Heads to
survive from the 1920s and is one of few sites in south east Queensland which has operated continuously as a seaside guest house from the late nineteenth century. The name of the town
was changed from Noosa to Noosa Heads in 1988. As a consequence of the ongoing development of Noosa Heads as a tourist resort, the Hastings Street streetscape and Noosa Heads
townscape have undergone many changes, including the demolition of the timber guest houses which formerly lined the street; Laguna House was demolished in the 1960s.
Significance Substantially rebuilt during the 1920s, and still in use as a guest house, Halse Lodge maintains its association with the site of guesthouse accommodation in Noosa Heads
from the 1880s. As the only extant guest house in Noosa Heads from the 1920s, Halse Lodge is indicative of early twentieth century holiday accommodation, and is important in
demonstrating the pattern of the development of Noosa Heads as a tourist resort. As the only extant guest house in Noosa Heads from the 1920s, Halse Lodge is indicative of early
twentieth century holiday accommodation, and is important in demonstrating the pattern of the development of Noosa Heads as a tourist resort.
Noosa River
Caravan Park
State
Heritage
Place
Russell Street,
Noosa Heads
QLD
Noosa River Caravan Park is located between Russell Street and the Noosa River at Noosaville at a site known as Munna Point. This site was originally part of a Reserve for Aboriginal
Mission Purposes that extended from a point east of Tewantin to Noosa Heads following the Noosa River, and south along the coastline, as shown on an 1871 cadastral map. It was
established in 1956 as a reserve for camping and recreation under the trusteeship of the Noosa Shire Council. Previously the land had been reserved for public purposes from 1884 and
camping on the site is recorded from circa 1929. As motorised transport became dominant and leisure time increased, particularly post-World War II, this site was established as a caravan
park to meet the needs of the growing number of caravanning holiday-makers whose destination was the North Coast. Its still-water river-side location, easily accessible by car from the
major Tewantin to Noosa road, and its range of accommodation and amenities, which have evolved over time, demonstrate all the features of a typical caravan park.
Significance The Noosa River Caravan Park is important in demonstrating the pattern of development of the Sunshine Coast, an important region for the development of seaside tourism
in Queensland. Originally designated as part of an 80 acre reserve for public purposes in 1884, the Noosa River Caravan Park has sustained its land use as a camping/caravan park from at
least the 1920s and is important evidence of the pattern of development of the tourist industry on the Sunshine Coast. The Noosa River Caravan Park illustrates the policy of colonial
governments of reserving Crown land for public camping and recreation purposes in prime waterside areas, a practice which was common, but is now rare.The Noosa River Caravan Park
represents a land use and custom that has made a strong contribution to the pattern and evolution of Queensland's tourism history. It is an excellent example of a camping and caravanning
site that has been used by Queensland holiday-makers since the 1920s. Located adjacent to an area of quiet water allowing easy access for swimming, boating and fishing activities,
Noosa River Caravan Park is important in illustrating the essential characteristics of early camping reserves.
RSL Park
Monument and
Monument
stone
Roger Todd
&
MP 2000
Roger Todd
&
MP 2000
8 Flaxton Drive The RSL Park (formerly known as Soldier's Park) was formerly recognised with a memorial and garden in 1984.The area had come about due to a road closure and had earlier been part
of the road 'network' surveyed by Delisser in the 1900's. Significance The part of the road surveyed by Alfred Delisser in 1883/84 along the summit of the Blackall Range named by
Surveyor C S Bradbury in 1874 after the Governor of Queensland. This park has a strong association with all sectors of the community of Mapleton and demonstrates some of the
characteristics of war memorial parks in the Shire.
8 Flaxton Drive The Monument and Monument stone were unveiled on the 14 March 1958. By the 1980's regular Anzac Commemorations were held at the Monument. Significance The Monument and
Monument Stone are evidence of the impact of a major historical event on the community and of widespread Australian patriotism and nationalism. There is a strong association with all
sectors of the community of Mapleton including RSL sub-branch members.
Red cedar trees
- eg of what
grew in gullies,
possibly
Tanglewood
Roger Todd
&
MP 2000
Obi Obi Road
Pre European habitat. Further validation is required
Well site, T.D.
Smith (now Mr
Bob Williams
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&
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3 Mapleton
Falls Road
In 1890-91 the Maroochy District suffered through lack of rain and a severe dry period resulted. Smith and his brother, William, dug a well where it was noticed that the land was still
wet.Over time the super structure was replaced with a hand pump and a pipe. Significance Historically the well is important in demonstrating an aspect of the lifestyle of the first settlers
on Mapleton and demonstrates a degree of creative and technological achievement in 1890.
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Site
Tramlines -
Tramway/Rail
way, Mapleton
& Station
opposite
Mapleton Hall
Seaview
Guesthouse
(College/Maple
ton, Mapleton
Homestead
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Source
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Address
Lilyponds
entrance Road
east of Rainbow
Park Drive
40 Post Office
Road
Citation - Accepted
The tramline was opened 03 3 December 1915. The construction followed the contour lines of the escarpment to terminate at a goods shed in a paddock adjoining the school grounds on
Obi Obi Road. The service was maintained for 30 years until the council sold the engines , the rails and the rolling stock to the Moreton Central Sugar Mill Co in 1945. Significance
Historically the Tramway is evidence of an important element of early transport in the Maroochy Shire and has an important association with the linking of both the Mapleton and
Nambour communities.
Further validation is required
Smith brothers’
residence,
Mapleton Falls
Road
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&
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11 Mapleton
Falls Road
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Smith
Memorial Park
& Obelisk,
Mapleton
Residence/Hous
e opp RSL
Park
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&
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Cnr Post Office
Road &
Nambour -
Mapleton Road
Road
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Cemetery at
Mapleton
(1901)
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&
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181 Delicia
Road
Before the turn of the century, provision had been made for the interment of residents. In 1899 a committee including William Smith requested from the Lands Commissioner a tracing of
a cemetery reserve of about ten acres in a timber reserve gazetted in 1887 on Delicia Road and adjoining W H Rosser’s selection on the northwest. The Commissioner in February 1900
had no record of a cemetery reserve at the location. After receiving an application from the committee, Surveyor E H Lack surveyed approximately 5 acres of the land and Cemetery 321
on Reserve 482 Portion 121V Parish Kenilworth County March was gazetted in 1900. William and Thomas Smith had been elected trustees at a public meeting before November 1899,
but their appointment was not confirmed by the Governor-inCouncil. In 1918, William Smith informed the Home Secretary that at a public meeting Edgar Harold Jeffs, Joseph Francis
Power and Frederick Lounds had been elected as additional trustees. The five men were then officially appointed the first trustees of the Mapleton Cemetery. The first internment after the
gazettal of the cemetery was Hannah Smith on 17 July 1901. The cemetery was well used until 1921. Most residents were then interred in the Nambour General Cemetery. Bush fires
periodically swept through the cemetery and destroyed wooden crosses and headstones. In 1955 there was only one surviving trustee, Frederick Lounds and the cemetery appeared
abandoned. It was in a very neglected condition and infested with groundsel. Lounds was willing to transfer the trusteeship to the Maroochy Shire Council and the government appointed
them trustee in April 1961. Since the 1990s a number of Mapleton residents of have again used the cemetery. A memorial wall for ashes has been erected. In 2006 although many of the
old headstones and graves need attention, the grounds are well maintained. Significance Has strong historical connection to the Mapleton community through interment of residents from
1901.
Will Whalley’s
Store,
Mapleton Town
Centre
(Mapleton Real
Estate)
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&
MP 2000
1 Post Office
Road
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Cultural Heritage
Site
Mapleton Hotel
& Strongaird
Residence
Family grave,
Flaxton Mill
Road
Chermside
Homestead,
Flaxton
Ex-school
building,
Flaxton
Belbury,
Western
Avenue,
Montville
Monty Smith’s
home, opposite
Belbury,
Western
Avenue
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Source
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Address
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Flaxton Mill
Road
11 Flaxton Mill
Road
360-362 Flaxton
Drive
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Further validation is required
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33 Western Ave On the western side of Main Street from Western Avenue to opposite the Razorback Road, William McClintock (jnr) in 1888 applied for 154 acres (Portion 70V Maleny) with a frontage
to the road. In 1893 he surrendered his selection and in the same year Henry Smith took up the land. In 1899, Smith freeholded the land and grew farm produce including citrus trees. He
later subdivided it into a number of large portions and a small allotment on the road frontage on which a Methodist Church was built in 1912. When Henry Smith arrived in Montville
from Redland Bay, Queensland, he built a slab hut but it is not known whether the building was erected on the site of Belbury. To accommodate his family, Smith in 1895 built a house
called Eastnor along the road frontage of Butt’s Road (Western Avenue) By the early 1900s, he had built a store at the side of the house and shifted into it the Receiving Post Office,
which he conducted in a building behind a stable located on Main Street. In 1912, he built a new store on the corner of Western Av and moved the postal businessinto it. His application
to have the Receiving Post Office named Razorback was not approved and his choice of Montville was accepted resulting in the district becoming known by that name. In 1896, he was
involved in obtaining a school at Montville, and in 1908 he was chairman of the committee responsible for a new school building. Henry Smith was also a pioneer of the citrus industry
on Montville. By 1909 he had subdivided his land and transferred some of the blocks to others. The Main Street of Montville is located on his selection. Significance: Important in the
locality’s history and that of the Shire. The house is associated with the initial development of Montville, its agriculture and commerce. Architectural qualities and an intact garden setting
with an authentic appearance give this building its heritage significance.
26 Western Ave In 1893 Alfred Smith selected 155 acres on the corner of Western Road and Main Street and free holded the land in 1898. A housewas built with a frontage to the road. In 1911 his son,
Monte, was married and built a Queenslander style house on its present location. Father and son cultivated pineapples and citrus for a living. When Alfred Smith died he transferred the
land to Monte who continued to live in the house and continued to grow pineapples commercially for more than 60 years. Monte Smith sold the land in 1974 and died in Caloundra in
1977. In 2007, the house was on 13.65 hectares and the interior of the land had been renovated and modernized. Monte Smith was patron of the RSL, and of the Progress Association of
which he was a foundation member. Significance: This house is Associated with the pre WWI development of Montville and fruit growing in the locality. The form of the house and the
natural bush land setting give aesthetic visual merit.
Razorback
Road,
Montville
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&
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Razorback Road
In 1883 when Delisser surveyed the road along the summit of the Blackall Range he noted that a cleared saddle track from the headwaters of Eudlo Creek joined the proposed road where
the Village Green is located in 2007. The early settlers and timbermen used the track that followed the contours of the country from Palmwoods to Hunchy then along the steep razorback
spur to Montville. In 1911 Bowser’s of Brisbane constructed a new road over the last mile or more from Hunchy to Montville at a cost of £1,100. It followed the western side of the spur
and was carved out of rock, but they still had to ascend the last part of the escarpment along the razorback section. After World War I the Main Road Commission was formed, and in
1918 a local committee, that included T H Brown and J J Thomas, was elected to approach the head of the commission, Sir John Kemp, with the view to getting a better road up the
escarpment. The road was gazetted a main road in 1923 and a government surveyor named Foster was commissioned to survey a proper road route. Significance: Transportation route
from the early days. Construction of the road in 1911 evidences the historical importance of roads in settling the country. The road is a technological achievement in constructing a road
over difficult terrain.
Monument at
Razorback
Lookout
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&
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Razorback Road
In 1911 the Montville Fruitgrower’s Association applied to the Lands Department for the land in the Razorback Road reserve adjacent to the northeastern boundary of the school reserve
to be designated a recreation reserve. Their request was not approved. By 1920s Montville had become well-known as a vantage point to look out over the countryside to the ocean.
Located on the edge of the escarpment, visitors and local residents used the lookout at the end of the no-through road. Commencing in 1978, Easter Sunday sunrise services have been
held at the site. In 1986 during the centenary celebrations, a decision was made to erect a monument on the edge of the escarpment. A shelter shed was erected and a small area of land
was cleared of undergrowth. A basalt rock unearthed from the Narrows Road during construction of the Baroon Pocket dam in 1986 was brought to the lookout. On 3 May 1987, Senator
Lady Belke-Petersen unveiled the metal plaque on which was written a timeline history of Montville from 1831 to 1980. At the same time, the Montville Branch of the Queensland
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Country Women’s Association developed a Senses Trail that runs from the Centennial Bridge around the north-eastern edge to monument. Significance: The lookout demonstrates the
evolution of the locality’s history and by extension the Shire’s history. The spectacular panoramic views of surrounding countryside highlight its aesthetic qualities.
Montville
House, Western
Avenue/Range
Road,
Montville
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&
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2-24 Western
Ave
In 1893 Alfred Smith selected 155 acres on the corner of Western Road and Main Street and free holded the land in 1898. In 1945, J Wilson bought a block of the land with a frontage to
both roads and built Montville House with fibre cement cladding and roof. He furnished it to accommodate paying guests. The views from the site, which included those to the coast and
over Baroon Pocket, were spectacular. In the 1950s, Montville House became a private home owned by the Blicharski family. Significance: Probably the last of the guesthouse built on
the Blackall Range in the era of guesthouse accommodation for tourists. The spectacular panoramic views of surrounding countryside are now lost to vegetation. The house demonstrates
aesthetics of the post WWII style with some joinery features reminiscent of inter war buildings
Maryalda
Guest House
(now Montville
Art Gallery)
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&
MP 2000
127 - 133 Main
St
Further validation is required
Lachlan Guest
House (now
offices & shops,
M/nl)
School of Arts
building/Montv
ille Hall
Montville
Methodist
Church
St. Mary’s
Church of
England
Church
Misty’s
Mountain
Restaurant
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134 Main St Further validation is required
137 Memorial
Close
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135 Main St Further validation is required
Memorial Close
Further validation is required
142 Main St Alfred Smith served in World War I and returned with shrapnel wounds in the legs. In 1920 he erected a single storied building on one of small portions of land – allotment acquired by
Jane Smith in 1919. The business enterprise expanded and a second story was built to be used as living quarters. In 1927 Smith added a third story from which the countryside could be
viewed from all sides. In 1930 he imported a Zeiss telescope from Europe, installed it in the observatory, and charged tourists sixpence to look at the views and the ships out at sea. Smith
also carried out watch and clock repairs and sold souvenirs, fancy goods, school supplies and confectionery. The shop became a mecca for school children. Smith was also a photographer
who produced the first postcards of the district and became well known for the wooden toys he made from timber milled at Flaxton and sold in the shop. The building was officially called
The Lookout, but the three stories of varying size earned it the local name of The Wedding Cake Shop. He carried on the business for over 50 years and sold in 1975. In 1975 Peter
Brierty and his wife bought the shop, which they re-modeled into a restaurant that they named Misty’s Mountain Restaurant. They kept the exterior intact but renovated and re-modeled
the interior. Significance: Contributes to our understanding of the development of an urban environment in Montville and the Shire. Aesthetically the building has three tiered appearance
that manifests the compositional landmark qualities associated with the picturesque streetscape.
Some school
buildings,
Montville State
School
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&
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149 - 157 Main
St
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Site
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Pear tree in
front of
Mapleton
library
Obi Obi Road
Further validation is required
Memorial trees
in grounds of
Hall, Mapleton
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&
MP 2000
31 Obi Obi
Road
Further validation is required
Giant Box tree,
Mapleton Falls
(ex Flying Fox)
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&
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Mapleton Falls
Road
Pre European habitat. Further validation is required
Lilyponds,
Mapleton
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&
MP 2000
10 Delicia Road When Alfred Delisser surveyed the road through Mapleton in 1883, he noted on his plan a water-logged area where the present day Lilponds are located and charted the area as a swamp.
When the Maroochy Shire Council constructed the Obi Obi Road between the Hall and the tramway terminus, a storm washed tons of soil into the outlet of the swamp. In 1924, the water
could not flow freely and had to remain in the swamp. To allow the water to flow, Council would have to
dig a drain through a rock bar. The drain was never dug and the swamp became known as the Mapleton Swamp. By the 1970s Ernie Setterfield had acquired the land on which the swamp
was located. To improve the swamp, he hired two bulldozers and turned the swamp into a lake with islands. Setterfield then planted masses of waterlillies of different colours and the
Mapleton Swamp acquired the name Lillyponds. Before he died, Setterfield donated the land to the Maroochy Shire Council. In 1988, the Governor of Queensland officially opened the
park and recreation area. The entrance to the park was constructed on the formation of the Mapleton-Nambour tramway. In 2006, a shelter shed and toilet facilities are located in the park
that has become a haven for avifauna. Significance: Linked with early survey of the Blackall Range and the tramway. High aesthetic value due to picturesque qualities enchanced by the
lillyponds and birdlife.
Kondalilla Falls
NP (originally
bequeathed by
Skene)
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&
MP 2000
Kondalilla Falls
Road
The Kondalilla Falls National Park is located on the western side of the Blackall Range and encompasses Skene Creek which flows over the Kondalilla Falls into Obi Obi Creek, a
tributary of the Mary River. In 1893, William Skene selected 160 acres that contained the falls. The selection was named Bon Accord and the waterfall Skene’s Falls. In 1902 Skene
subdivided 42 acres, which included the falls, from his dairy farm, which had been freeholded in 1899. He offered the subdivision to the Home Secretary’s Department to be set aside as a
scenic reserve. In 1906 the government accepted the land and the falls were renamed the Bon Accord Falls.Before 1945 the land became a State Forest Recreational Reserve. In 1945 it
was gazetted as a National Park, and, the name of the park was changed to Kondalilla National Park in order to acknowledge the earlier custodianship of the Aboriginal people. In the
1970s, additional adjacent land was acquired and added as an extension to the park. In 1988 the 329ha of the Kondalilla National Park was linked to the Obi Obi National Park.The park
was established to conserve rainforest and tall open forest remnants which grow on the undulating hills that are cut by the tributaries of Obi Obi Creek, part of the Mary River system. The
tall Eucalyptus and softwood forests, which are part of a limited distribution in Queensland areas, were logged from the early 1900s to the 1 940s. Gazettal has ensured that inaccessible
areas have been preserved and that other areas have regenerated. The park protects some rare species of plants, notably Boehmeria macrophylla, and a number of zoological species
including frogs and avifauna that are endemic to northern New South Wales /south eastern Queensland rainforest refugia. The fauna is also representative of rainforest/sclerophyll faunal
set in south east Queensland.The park has become a popular venue for both local residents and tourists. Tracks including the Great Walks of the Sunshine Coast and to the Kondalilla
Falls have been constructed throughout the park. Since the 1970s, A picnic area complete with barbeques, tables parking areas, information board and toilets has been developed at the
Kondalilla Falls Road entrance.
Macadamia &
avocado
plantations,
Flaxton &
Montville
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&
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Various
locations in
Blackall Ranges
Further validation is required
The Village
Green,
Montville
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&
MP 2000
141-143 Main
St
The precinct is the commercial and cultural centre of Montville. It is important in both local and Queensland history in demonstrating the pattern of the development of a rural settlement
into a rural town dependent of tourist attractions for its viability. The Village Green has strong historical significance. Its continual use since the 1880s shows the pattern of use of the
reserve in a rural town in the locality’s history. The varied architecture of the older buildings and the new buildings added to the visual characteristics of the precinct. Streetscaping that
included metal footpath insets depicting the district’s heritage and indigenous animals enhances the aesthetic value. Well maintained trees and grounds are an aesthetic characteristic
valued by the local community. Further validation is required
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Site
Fig &
Camphor
Laurel trees,
Montville State
School
Linda Garrett
Park, Mapleton
Mapleton Falls
National Park
Montville
Bicentennial
Bridge
Bunya Pine
Trees
Buderim House
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State
Heritage
Place
Address
Flaxton Drive
Further validation is required
Citation - Accepted
Mapleton The park is located in Delicia Road. In 1946, Ted and Eric Richards opened a case timber mill in Mapleton. They heavy logged the park area to maintain their supply of timber before
they closed in 1976. Then residential estate developers acquired the land. In the 1980s Linda Garrett purchased the property for $500,000 with a view of preserving the land for the
Mapleton Community. At the official handover Councillor Bob King thanked her for ‘an outstanding gesture of great generosity’. At her request, the reserve was gazetted a conservation
park under the Nature Conservation Act 1992 on 16 December 1994. Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service then took over the management of the park. In December 2005, the Linda
Garrett Conservation Park became part of the Great Walks - Sunshine Coast the land remains undeveloped except at the entrance where a carpark, shelter shed, rock wall on which is
mounted a name plaque and an information board. A small significant wet sclerophyll forest community with a canopy dominated with blackbutt, turpentine, brush box and flooded gum
has regenerated. The park is also the habitat of two endangered frog species, wallabies and a diversity of bird life. Significance Donation of the park was a significant historical event in
Maroochy Shire.
Delicia Rd In 1883 Delisser proposed that the land where the road crossed Pencil Creek be set aside as a large reserve, but in 1891 the reserve was cancelled and Alfred Lymburner, a surveyor
commissioned by the Lands Department, surveyed 60 acres of the land where the falls cascaded 120 metres over the escarpment into the Obi Obi as Portion 48 in the Parish of
Kenilworth. In 1893 the land where Mapleton Falls was located in the south- west corner was gazetted as R230 and designated as a recreation reserve. On 20 January 1915, the name of
the falls was changed from Baroon Falls to Mapleton Falls as requested by the Mapleton community. By 1919 the Falls had become a popular venue for locals and tourists but there were
no amenities. In preparation for a public picnic, the residents erected a swing, a swinging boat, seesaw, and a lookout platform overhanging the gorge.T D Smith constructedthe aerial
tramwaywhich consisted of acage suspended by overhead pulleys on a wire rope stretched above the gorge. The 180 feet of wire rope was anchored to bolts driven into large trees on
either side and had a breaking strain of 11 1/2 tons. Passengers
winched themselves back and forth by hand. The tramway ceased when the cage became too unsafe in the 1920s and had to be dismantled. In 1975 the government proclaimed the 24
hectare reserve a national park. In 1995 the lookout was closed after a landslide associated with soil stability led to public concern about safety.The facilities were redeveloped and
opened in January 2001 by Rod Welford MLA, Minister for Environment and Heritage. They incorporated a lookout over the falls, new barbeques, parking areas, information board and a
nature walk as well as water flushing toilets. In 2007 the bolts from the flying fox remain embedded in a large box tree on the eastern side of the falls. Significance Linked with the
settlement and surveying of Queensland, the setting aside of environmentally endangered wet and dry sclerophyll forest, and tourism.
Razorback Road The children from Montville State School continued to cross the Razorback Road to attend activities at the School of Arts and on the Village Green. In the 1980s the crossing had become
very dangerous. Jeremy Scriven, a surveyor, proposed the construction of a bridge to eliminate the danger. In 1986 M Middleton, an architect, designed a wooden bridge with high closed
in wooden sides. P Parnell, an engineer, and B McLennan, a surveyor, designated the deep cutting where the Razorback Road begins to descend the escarpment of the Blackall Range as
the site to link Memorial Close to George Carpenter Place on the north side of the school reserve. Under the supervision of Bill Lilley, the bridge was built as part of a community
employment programme with the assistance of the Maroochy Shire Council. During the Montville Centenary Celebrations on 18 October 1986, H Butt, born in Montville in 1898, and
Councillor Robert King, Deputy Chairman of Maroochy Shire Council, officially opened the bridge. Significance: The bridge has distinctive aesthetic qualities in design. No other
similar footbridge in the Maroochy Shire shows a level of rarity.
Delicia Road Pre European habitat. Further validation is required
10 Orme Road,
QLD
Herbert Fielding acquired the property in 1906, it extended from Orme Road to Mill Road and across the present Gloucester Road to the creek. He was a successful farmer, and in the
early 1900s attended state-wide agricultural conferences as the representative of the Maroochy Pastoral Agricultural Horticultural and Industrial Association. Buderim House was built
c1915 for Herbert Victor Fielding, son of pioneer Buderim sugar planter, mill owner and fruit grower John Fielding, who in 1876 selected nearly 49 hectares on the northern slopes of
Buderim Mountain. The architect was George Trotter of Corinda, and the contractor was Kangaroo Point builder Christian Schriver. The house and about 1.6 hectares was sold to HJ
Murphy in 1927. Murphy, later an alderman in the Maroochy Shire Council, developed the present gardens around the house in the 1930s. He sold the house in 1954, and the land was
subdivided further in 1967. The house now stands on about 0.6 hectares. Close to the house a small section of vine scrub, known as Fielding's Scrub, was left as a break against the
westerly winds. It remains one of the few vestiges of the dense scrub which covered Buderim Mountain and hindered agricultural development of the area in the 1870s. The Cocos palms
[Cocos nucifera L.] in this scrub reputedly were seeded by Fielding. Buderim House demonstrates the principal characters of a substantial early 20th century Queensland timber
residence. Significance It exhibits particular aesthetic characteristics valued by the Buderim community, these being its landmark quality and the contribution of the house, established
gardens and rare scrub remnant, to the Buderim landscape.
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Canambie
Homestead
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Source
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Heritage
Place
Address
12 Dixon Road,
QLD
Citation - Accepted
From the early 1860s, Buderim Mountain had been extensively logged, principally for the fine stands of red cedar and white beech, which was shipped to Brisbane via William
Pettigrew's wharf on the Mooloolah River. In mid-1870 the plateau was opened for selection. In 1873, Joseph Chapman Dixon (JC Dixon) married Elizabeth Alice Fielding of Eagle
Farm, near Brisbane, returning with his bride to Buderim Mountain. By August 1874, Dixon was cultivating principally maize and sugar cane, with some coffee. By the mid-1870s, sugar
cane was grown extensively on Buderim Mountain, with planters utilising South Sea Islander labour. In 1875, JC Dixon and his father-in-law John Fielding went into partnership to
established the mountain's first sugar mill, which was erected on part of portion 47 [Mill Road is indicative of the site].
Canambie Homestead was erected probably in the early 1880s for Buderim Mountain sugar planter and sugar mill owner Joseph Chapman Dixon (JC Dixon), his wife Elizabeth Alice
Fielding, and family. The name 'Canambie' reputedly is an indigenous word meaning 'black plum'. The place is still utilised as a residence, and remains one of the earliest surviving
sawn-timber houses on the plateau. By 1881, JC Dixon was one of the largest landholders on Buderim Mountain, having acquired the freehold of nearly 480 acres and the leasehold of
another 80 acres, and was in partnership with John Fielding in the freehold of another 200 acres and the 3 acre mill site. By the mid-1880s he had acquired another 1000 acres of scrub
land running down the southeast side of the mountain to Mountain Creek. On Buderim Mountain, the family is commemorated in the naming of Dixon and Mill roads and Fielding Street.
Significance Canambie Homestead, erected probably in the early 1880s, is important in demonstrating the early development of Buderim Mountain as an agricultural settlement, in
particular the early success of sugar growing and sugar milling in the district. It is one of the oldest surviving residences on the plateau, remains substantially intact, and is important in
demonstrating the principal characteristics of an early 1880s farmhouse of substantial proportions and fine detailing and workmanship, constructed of local timbers no longer generally
available.
Conondale
Timbers
Sawmill
State
Heritage
Place
Aherns Road,
QLD
The Conondale Timbers Sawmill near the town of the same name in the Sunshine Coast region is a large operating hardwood mill constructed in the early 1930s. It comprises the mill
shed and equipment, plus ancillary structures including workers' housing. The mill was originally powered by steam, but has now been converted to electricity. Sawmilling was a major
industry on the North Coast hinterland in the 1930s: the coastal area between Brisbane and Gympie contained the highest concentration of sawmills in the State. More hardwood was cut
on the North Coast than anywhere else in Queensland. Improvements in the road network and mechanised transport in the 1920s made sawmilling in remote areas such as Conondale
more viable from the later interwar period. The Conondale sawmill was built by M.R. Hornibrook Pty Ltd to supply timber for the Hornibrook Highway project that linked the Redcliffe
Peninsular with the Brisbane suburbs of Brighton and Sandgate across the mouth of the North Pine River and Hays Inlet. At the time, M.R. Hornibrook Pty Ltd was among the most
prominent civil engineering firms in Queensland. From 1918, Manuel Hornibrook and his company (formed in 1926) constructed a number of drainage and water supply systems for
Brisbane and regional councils. By the early 1930s, their civil engineering projects had included a number of prominent bridges including an eight-span reinforced concrete bridge at
Howard, the Grey Street (William Jolly) Bridge in Brisbane and an eight-span reinforced concrete bridge over the Coomera River. After completion of the Hornibrook Highway project,
the company joint ventured with Evans Deakin and Company to build Brisbane's Story Bridge and they built a 47-span railway bridge over the Pioneer River in Mackay. After World
War II, the company was involved in the construction of Bulimba B, Tennyson and Townsville power stations and was a major contractor for construction of the Sydney Opera House.
Significance The Conondale Timbers Sawmill (early 1930s) is important in demonstrating the development of the State's timber industry insofar as it exemplifies sawmills established on
the North Coast (now the Sunshine Coast) when it was one of the most important timber producing regions in the State. In the 1930s, when the mill was established, the North Coast
produced the most hardwood in the State and contained more sawmills than anywhere else in Queensland. The mill drew on the area's abundant hardwood resources to supply the
construction of the Hornibrook Bridge. The mill is one of the earliest known sawmills still operating in the North Coast region. It is uncommon in the region for its earliness, the
intactness of its original fabric and layout, and its continuity of operation as a sawmill since the early 1930s.
Cooroy Lower
Mill Site Kiln
State
Heritage
Place
Lower Mill
Road, Cooroy,
QLD
The Cooroy Lower Mill Site Kiln, located in the Sunshine Coast township of Cooroy, was a timber drying kiln built in late 1956 by the prominent South Queensland sawmillers, J
Wilkinson and Sons Pty Ltd and Straker and Sons Pty Ltd. The kiln at Cooroy was the product of a post-World War II trend in the sawmill industry towards centralisation and larger
operations to enable economies of scale. One of the motivations for this trend was the need to acquire technology like drying kilns in order to remain competitive. The amalgamation of
sawmills made greater funds available for this equipment. Improvements in road transport, which enabled timber to be transported from a wider area, made the trend towards bigger
centralised operations feasible. As built in 1956, the kiln comprised a steam heated, cross shaft internal fan design that was common in Australia at the time. North Coast Sawmills'
Cooroy mills were bought by Quintex in the 1980s and subsequently Boral Timber. Boral used the kiln and planing plant to produce and dry boards for flooring and decking. Significance
the Cooroy Lower Mill Site Kiln (1956) is important in demonstrating the development of the State's timber industry insofar that it is a rare example of a timber drying kiln established on
the North Coast (now Sunshine Coast) when the region was recognized to be one of the State's most important timber producers. The kiln is the only known example of a timber drying
kiln in the Sunshine Coast region and it remains in a highly intact condition.
Koongalba
State
Heritage
Place
12 Wharf Street,
QLD
This single-storeyed timber house was erected in 1894 for John Anthony Low, a prominent member of the Maroochy community during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Low was the eldest son of James Low who was actively involved in the development of the timber industry in the Mooloolah - Maroochy area and the development of Yandina from the
1860s. Following investigation of the timber resources of the Mooloolah - Maroochy region by Tom Petrie c1862, timber-getters commenced work in the area. James Low and William
Grigor are recorded as having moved to the Mooloolah area in 1863 where, in partnership with William Pettigrew, they sent timber from the Mooloolah area to Pettigrew's sawmill in
Brisbane. John took over James' timber and grazing businesses upon his father's death, continuing to cut, haul and raft timber. In 1893 John became engaged to Louisa Ann Bury, and
prepared to erect a new house. John acquired two half acre allotments on opposite sides of Wharf Street from James' estate, and planned to use the allotment on the southern side for the
house, and the land on the northern side for the garden. The house was named Koongalba in 1994, to mark the 100th anniversary of the erection of the house. Koongalba, meaning "place
of clean water" is the Aboriginal name for the area around the Maroochy River at Yandina. Significance the residence, with its landscaped grounds and plantings of mature trees, makes a
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considerable contribution to the amenity of the Wharf Street streetscape and the Yandina townscape. As a building erected on land which has been continuously owned by members of the
Low family from the late 1860s, Koongalba is important for its association with the family which was influential in the development of the timber industry in the Mooloolah-Maroochy
area, and in the development of Yandina as a commercial centre from the late 1860s.
Montville
Memorial
Precinct
State
Heritage
Place
Razorback Road
and Main Street
The Montville Memorial Precinct is located in the village of Montville in the Blackall Ranges west of the Sunshine Coast. Each element of the precinct has a war memorial function and
the place is the setting for annual Anzac Day ceremonies. The memorial gates (1921), commemorating World War I servicemen, form an entrance into Montville Hall (1903) from
Memorial Close. The hall contains two memorial honour boards commemorating servicemen from both world wars. Opposite the memorial gates and abutting the Close, a park known
locally as the 'Village Green' contains six memorial trees (1923) and a former Soldiers' Memorial Hall (1941) (now Montville Memorial Hall, St Mary's Church Hall and Community
Centre). The precinct is located at the intersection of Main Street (Montville-Mapleton Road) and Razorback Road.
Significance the Montville Memorial Precinct is important in demonstrating the pattern of Queensland's history, being associated with Australia's involvement in two world wars and
with the national expressions of grief that followed. The World War I memorials at Montville (1921 gates and 1923 memorial trees) reflect a period of strong and widespread Australian
patriotism and nationalism when most Queensland communities erected a public memorial to honour local participation in the war. The Montville Memorial Gates (1921) are rare in
Queensland insofar as they include the names of men who volunteered for service in World War I but were rejected. The area is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of
war memorials.
Moreton
Central Sugar
Mill Workers
Housing
(former)
State
Heritage
Place
17 & 19 Mill
Street, and 14 &
16 Bury Street,
QLD
The two timber cottages at 17 and 19 Mill Street, built sometime between 1897 and 1917, and the timber house with its extensive garden and mature trees on Bury Street, built between
1907 and 1911, provide rare surviving evidence of the sugar industry that powered the economy of Nambour and the Maroochy Shire from 1897 to 2003. The cottages on Mill Street are
the former residences of senior staff of the Moreton Central Sugar Mill Company, and the house on Bury Street was formerly the residence of the mill's manager. Although timber was a
vital part of the early economy of the Sunshine Coast region, sugar eventually became the primary agricultural activity of the Maroochy Shire. In mid-1894 R.W. McCulloch, from the
Department of Agriculture, assessed the potential sugar-growing land in the district, and concluded that there was sufficient acreage to support a mill. McCulloch also believed that
Nambour would be the best site for a central mill, with its site on the railway, and cane-growing land to its east and west. The Moreton Central Sugar Mill Company was registered on 21
December 1894, the first meeting of the mill's Board of Directors took place in January 1895, and tenders for the mill were called in February. In December 1895 eight acres 1 rood and
24.9 perches of Lawrence Cusack's estate, being liquidated by the South Australian Land Mortgage and Agency Company, was transferred to the company at the site of the future mill
and its housing. Regardless of the actual build dates of the surviving two cottages, and which staff member lived in them at any particular time, it is clear that they are surviving examples
of the houses erected for senior staff by the Moreton Central Sugar Mill Company between 1897 and the late 1930s. The Mill Street cottages stand on part of the Moreton Central Sugar
Mill's original 1895 land purchase, and although they have been extended and modified since their construction they have been an integral part of the mill site and the mill's operations.
Significance as rare surviving evidence of the Moreton Central Sugar Mill, the mill staff housing is important in illustrating the development of the sugar industry in Queensland, and the
impact of the sugar industry on the settlement of the North Coast region. The sugar industry influenced the pattern of growth of Nambour as a prominent mill town and regional centre,
and influenced the pattern of settlement of the associated farms and townships of the region during the twentieth century. The sugar industry was an important and vital part of the
economy of the region and very little physical evidence survives of the industry particularly the mill and its associated infrastructure. As a group the houses are good examples of
purpose-built staff accommodation.
Nambour
Section of the
Moreton
Central Sugar
Mill Cane
Tramway
State
Heritage
Place
Mill Street,
Currie Street,
Howard Street,
QLD
The Moreton Central Sugar Mill opened for crushing in 1897. The tramway network that connected the mill with cane farms developed over many years and was in use until late 2003. It
was a key factor in the success of the mill and the development of Nambour. In 1881 the Buderim Mountain Sugar Mill was established and also served many small farms, but both mills
had failed by the end of the decade. In 1893 the Sugar Works Guarantee Act was passed. This provided capital for the erection of central sugar mills in districts with many small farms by
offering loans to incorporated companies, so that growers could develop their own mills. The Moreton Central Sugar Mill Company was formed in December 1894. Land bounded by the
North Coast railway on the west and Gympie Road on the east was purchased for a mill site at the small settlement of Nambour. Erection of a mill by Caskie and Thompson began in late
1895. In order for the mill to be successful, it was essential to establish an efficient means for bringing the harvested cane in from surrounding farms to be crushed. Tramway networks
carrying wagons drawn by steam locomotives had been used effectively in other Queensland sugar districts since the 1880s, so possible routes for a tramway network were surveyed as
part of the planning for the Moreton Mill. In 1911 a branch line was constructed to the Maroochy River and although the eastern section of the tramway network continued to be
extended, lines on the western side were sold to Maroochy Shire in 1914. Some branch lines were dismantled and the line extended to Mapleton. The council operated this line for 30
years, before it was reacquired in 1945 by the Mill and reduced back to the foot of the range before being closed in 1970.
Significance the Moreton Central Sugar Mill operated between 1897 and December 2003. During the 20th century, sugar growing was the most important primary industry in the
Maroochy district. It was a key factor in the development of Nambour and the Maroochy Shire and important in the growth of the sugar industry in Queensland. The cane tramway, which
brought cane from many farms to the mill for crushing, was an essential part of the operation of the mill. The line between Nambour and Coolum was also used for passengers in the
1920s and 30s and was instrumental in the development of the tourist industry in the area, by linking the QR station next to the Nambour mill with resort areas at Coolum and
Maroochydore. Although it is very uncommon for a cane tramway to pass through the centre of a town, as the line at Nambour does, the line otherwise demonstrates the features of its
type well, being a narrow gauge (2 foot or 610mm) track laid without formation and links the site of the mill to the marshalling yards from where it fanned out in many separate lines
forming a large network across farms, roadways and over the Maroochy River.
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Cotton Tree
Caravan Park
State
Heritage
Place
Cotton Tree
Parade, QLD
The lower reaches of the Maroochy River began to develop as a place of resort in the 1880s. On the southern bank at its mouth, where Cotton Tree Caravan Park is sited, a 215 acre
Wharf and Water reserve was gazetted in 1873. Holiday makers informally camped on the reserve among the native Cotton trees (Hibiscus tiliaceus). The use of the reserve, adjacent to a
calm, shallow stretch of the river, reflected the preferences of the Victorian era for seaside swimming, boating and fishing. Similar locations for resort on the North Coast developed in the
same period at Caloundra and Tewantin.
The Salvation Army established the area as a well known resort location. A yearly 'Maroochy Heads encampment' was organised over the short break between Christmas and the New
Year. The encampment became a popular annual event. Over Christmas 1905, 400 people camped on the reserve. The surf beach immediately south of the river mouth gradually became
more popular for swimming and in 1908 a life saving reel was installed. While the resort charms of the Maroochy region gained wider exposure in the 1900s and outside tourists became
more common, campers were predominantly from the Blackall Range and districts surrounding Nambour until the interwar period.
The Maroochy Shire Council's involvement in managing the Cotton Tree reserve gradually increased during the interwar period. A new jetty was constructed in 1923 and new bathing
sheds were constructed in 1929. The Maroochy Shire Council played a key role on the Sunshine Coast in developing caravanning facilities. By 1951, the Maroochy council had allocated
30 sites for caravans at Cotton Tree, although this was a fairly small amount compared to the 450 tent sites on offer. Over 1962/63, the Maroochy Shire Council undertook substantial
improvements to the site, including the construction of a new amenities block and a more organised east-west grid arrangement of sites for caravans and tents. The park remains a popular
destination, especially over traditional holiday periods.
Significance Cotton Tree Caravan Park is important in demonstrating the pattern of development of the Sunshine Coast, an historically important region for the development of seaside
tourism in Queensland. Originally gazetted as a Wharf and Water reserve in 1873, re-gazetted for Camping and Recreation purposes in 1916, Cotton Tree Caravan Park has sustained its
use as a seaside camping ground since the 1880s. It illustrates the policy and practice by early Queensland governments of reserving Crown land for public purposes in prime waterside
areas, which was common, but is now rarely practiced. Cotton Tree Caravan Park is important in demonstrating the evolution of tourist accommodation on the Sunshine Coast, an
historically important region for the development of caravan parks in Queensland. The Park's reconfiguration in 1962/63 during the boom period for caravanning (late 1950s and 1960s)
and subsequent periodic updates to its basic facilities, were a response intrinsically linked to the rise of mass motoring Australia-wide in the second half of the 20th century. Cotton Tree
Caravan Park demonstrates the principal characteristics of a seaside caravan park. On a prime waterfront location, with immediate access to both still water and surf, the place offers
opportunities to interact with, and appreciate the natural beauty of its setting.
Dunethin Rock
State
Heritage
Place
Dunethin Rock
Road, QLD
Dunethin Rock, a scenic reserve on the southern bank of the upper Maroochy River, is an important site associated with the development of tourism from the early 1900s on the Sunshine
Coast, a major tourist region in Queensland. Dunethin Rock, a prominent monolith on the southern bank of the river marked the shared southern boundaries of these runs. Land on the
southern side of the Maroochy River was opened for grazing after 1860. In 1861 Edmund Lander leased the Mooloolah Back Plains, a run of 26,500 acres with an outstation near Lake
Dunethin, an inlet of the Maroochy River just north of Dunethin Rock. After 1906, the reserve was incrementally reduced for a mixture of private selections and public purposes. A
Scenic Reserve of approximately 5 acres which encircled the rock itself was gazetted in 1923 and was placed under the control of the Maroochy Shire Council. The remainder of the
original 1901 reserve was renamed a reserve for camping and scenic purposes in 1924, further reduced in 1935 with a recreation and sports ground reserve, extending along the river to
the junction with Lake Dunethin. The scenic reserve and the recreation and sports reserve connected Dunethin Rock and the Lake via the river bank, the central locations for tourist,
leisure and social activities.
In the early 1950s Dunethin Rock continued to be popular for tourists arriving by motor launch. However, as petrol rationing ceased and car ownership increased more visitors began
arriving by road. Dunethin Rock and its surrounds appear to have remained relatively unchanged since its mid-20th century visitation heyday. The site currently receives a smaller
percentage of visitors compared to more prominent scenic locations on the Blackall Range. The buildings of the Maroochy River School of Arts and State School, closed in 1963 and
1972 respectively, are no longer in existence. While native vegetation surrounding the summit has obscured some southerly views, an extensive panorama can still be appreciated from
Dunethin Rock. The area below the rock along the river remains a popular picnic site for locals and for those who make use of the boat ramp near the junction with Dunethin Lake built
by Maroochy Shire Council in the 1990s.
Significance
As a popular picnic spot and destination for excursionists, Dunethin Rock was associated with North Coast (now Sunshine Coast) tourism from as early as 1910. Gazetted as a scenic
reserve in 1924, when the North Coast was emerging as a holiday destination for outside visitors, Dunethin Rock's increased popularity as a tourist destination from this period was
enhanced through the provision of access by motor launches on the Maroochy River and Moreton Mill tram line, key components of Maroochy Shire's early tourist transport network.
Road access to Dunethin Rock was improved during the 1950s in response to the rise of motor transport that occurred Australia-wide in this period. Dunethin Rock illustrates the
principal characteristics of an early beauty spot primarily accessed by means of a river cruise from a seaside resort, including scenic amenity and opportunities for leisure and relaxation.
Eumundi
School of Arts
State
Heritage
Place
Memorial Drive,
QLD
The Eumundi School of Arts, the second to be built on the site, was constructed in 1912 by W Bytheway, a builder from Gympie. At the time, Eumundi was one of a number of small but
prosperous Sunshine Coast hinterland towns servicing a timber, dairy and pastoral industry. The first selector in the North Maroochy River district, Joseph Gridley, arrived at Moreton
Bay in 1856 on the James Fernie with his wife Ellen and five children. In 1877, Gridley selected Portion 70, where the Hall now stands, for timber getting. In 1886 the Colonial
Government proposed a township at Eumundi as a station on the railway line between Brisbane and Maryborough. Residential land was auctioned in 1890 and the rail line was opened in
1891. The rail stop serviced the Eumundi timber getting area where selectors, including the Gridleys, had selected land during the 1870s. By 1893 a local provisional school was
operating. Dairy farmers started arriving in the area during the 1900s, either by overlanding their stock or accompanying them north on the railway. In May 1905, the County of Canning,
Parish of Maroochy, Town of Eumundi allocated Reserve Land Allotment 5, Section 2 for the hall by Proclamation. The allotment to be set apart was 'situated opposite the most
southerly gate of the Eumundi railway station yards upon a ridge...The site is a fine one for building purposes, and in every way suitable for a public building. The Association propose to
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build a Hall by subscription to be used for public meetings and associations'. A single-storey timber hall was constructed by Peter Denholm on the site in 1908. The Government
increased the School of Arts Reserve to include Allotments 6 and 7 in 1967 to allow for parking spaces. The Eumundi & District Historical Association (E&DHA) was appointed as
School of Arts Trustees in 1989. The School of Arts is still the focus for many of Eumundi's social and cultural activities.
Significance
The Eumundi School of Arts is important in demonstrating the pattern and evolution of Queensland's history, being an important component of the cultural life of the Eumundi
community as a school of arts and public library. Constructed in 1912, the second hall to be built on the site, the Eumundi School of Arts demonstrates the growth of the town following
the opening up of the area through timber getting and dairying and through the construction of the railway in 1891.
Eumundi war
Memorial
State
Heritage
Place
Memorial Drive,
QLD
The Eumundi War Memorial Trees were planted during and after the First World War. Between 1914 and 1918, eighty seven men from Eumundi and the surrounding district served in
the First World War. The trees were planted to honour the twenty men who did not return. Up until the early twentieth century, there were few statues or monuments in Queensland.
However, as a result of the First World War (1914 - 1918), memorials were erected in almost every Queensland town. Such public expression of both grief for the dead and pride in the
nation has not been generated by previous or subsequent wars. The memorials are important, not only in terms of what they represent, but also for what they record. In addition to listing
the local men who served and fell in the First World War, many memorials also display details regarding unveiling ceremonies and fund-raising committees, making them invaluable as
social and historical documents. They are even more valuable when it is considered that all other documentary records of those who served in the First World War are listed either
alphabetically or by military units, making it virtually impossible to determine the original locality of a specific serviceman. The memorials are therefore the only readily accessible
records of the origins of the men who served and fell. The original Eumundi Memorial Tree species were fig trees, of which twenty were planted. Of these, five are extant and the fifteen
which didn't survive have been replaced with other species including camphor laurels, lilly pillies and jacarandas. The first trees were planted between the railway gates and the CWA
Hall and the first two were replanted when the road was widened. The road on which the trees are located was originally the principal thoroughfare North. Shops, hotels and sawmills
were located along it, and it ran parallel to the North Coast Railway Line. The trees and plaques are cared for by the Maroochy Council arborist and the Eumundi Historical Association.
Significance
War Memorials are important in demonstrating the pattern of Queensland's history as they are representative of a recurrent theme that involved most communities throughout the state.
They provide evidence of an era of widespread Australian patriotism and nationalism, particularly during and following the First World War. The
Avenue of trees as memorials, and particularly those where each tree is attributed to a particular fallen serviceman are uncommon in Queensland. Most memorials erected during or after
the First World War were of the monumental type.
Fairview
State
Heritage
Place
15 Porter's
Lane, QLD
Fairview is a lowset, four-roomed timber dwelling under the core with four rooms under the stepped-down surrounding verandahs. It was constructed of Beech [Nothofagus sp.] cut, pit
sawn and dressed on the property, for John Robert and Emily Pattemore in 1907. History shows that due to a severe drought the Pattemore family decided to move to a farming area with
more reliable rainfall. Sons William John (Bill) and Herbert Stanley (Stan) heard of the lush Blackall Range in Queensland, then being promoted for its dairying opportunities, and by
1906 were cutting timber there. In 1906 Bill began sawmilling at Maleny in partnership with Maleny fruitgrower ET? Thynne as Thynne and Pattemore. Bill and Stan were joined by
their brothers Ernest Edward and Albert Aaron Pattemore in 1907.
The Pattemores sold their New South Wales interests in 1906 and in 1906-07 Bill and Stan purchased 5 Maleny farm blocks for the Pattemore family - one for their father and one for
each of the four sons. Title to portion 1256, the site on which Fariview was soon constructed, was registered in the name of John Robert Pattemore in September 1907. The block
comprised 154 acres, much of it bordered by Obi Creek.
Fairview was erected by the Pattemore sons in 1907 for their parents, Robert and Emily Pattemore, who followed them to Maleny in 1908. The house was constructed entirely of Beech,
used even for the original stumps. The brothers pit-sawed the timber on the property, hand planed it, and made 6 inch tongue and groove boards with a single beading. The sawdust from
the work was left in a mound at the rear of the house, which was a feature of the rear garden for many years. The house comprised four rooms under the core roof, with an enclosed room
at the rear end of each side verandah. Verandahs encircled the house, with the back verandah enclosed and used for a service room. Following Mrs Emily Pattemore's death at nearly 87
years in 1937, her husband remained on his farm, and in August 1941 celebrated his 91st birthday as Maleny's oldest resident. Following his death on 10 January 1947 title to his farm
was transferred out of the Pattemore family in August 1948. Subsequent owners included the CSR in 1964 and by May 1969, the George Armstrong family. In 1995 Fairview was
acquired from the Armstrong family by the Caloundra City Council. The house is rented and the land let to a farmer. In recent years Fairview has been re-roofed, a skillion roofed
verandah has been added at the rear, and a slatted balustrade has been constructed across the remaining open verandahs. The raised path still leads to the back of the property but the front
path is overgrown and no longer leads to the front gate. The old farm shed out the back has been removed.
Significance Fairview, constructed in 1907 of local Beech [Nothofagus sp.] cut, pit-sawn and dressed on the property, is important in demonstrating the early development of Maleny as
an agricultural settlement and the expansion of dairying in Queensland in the early 1900s. It is one of the oldest surviving pit sawn timber residences in the area.
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Mountains
National Park
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Beerburrum
Forest Reserve
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Kenilworth
Homestead
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Place
Address
Glasshouse
Mountains Rd,
Glass House
Mountains,
QLD
Eumundi
Kenilworth
Road, QLD
Citation - Accepted
The Glass House Mountains are one of southeast Queensland's most impressive landmarks. They are situated 65 - 75 kilometres north of Brisbane and are a group of steep sided plugs of
trachyte and rhyolite, once within volcanoes active in the early Tertiary Period, 20 to 25 million years ago. They have been exposed by wind and water erosion of the softer material of the
cones and surrounding area and now rise dramatically from the flat coastal plain. The mountains are central to the creation myths of the region and their spiritual and social importance
and links to Indigenous people continues to this day. The first European description of the mountains was by Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook, when on his voyage of discovery in
the barque Endeavour up the east coast of Australia. In his log for 17 May 1770 he wrote this place may always be found by three hills which lay to the northward of it in the latitude of
26 degrees 53 minutes south. These hills lay but a little way inland and not far from each other; they are very remarkable on account of their singular form of elevation which very much
resembles glass houses which occasioned me giving them that name: the northern most of the three is the highest and largest. There are likewise several other peaked hills inland to the
northward of these but they are not nearly so remarkable.
Significance the Glass House Mountains as ancient landforms illustrate the evolution of the landscape and the geological history of volcanic activity in the area. Because of their size and
distinctive form they are readily identifiable from a number of distant observation points from both land and sea and so have played an important role in navigation in connection with the
European exploration of the east coast of Australia. Captain Cook sighted and named them in 1770. In 1799 Matthew Flinders also reported on the Glass House peaks and camped in the
area. Other early explorers connected with them are John Oxley, Alan Cunningham, Andrew Petrie and Ludwig Leichhardt.
The Glass House peaks are visually impressive, rising dramatically from a flat coastal plain and are landmarks that can be seen from as far away as the Scenic Rim on the Queensland and
New South border and out to sea. Views of the mountains, and obtained from the mountains, are of high aesthetic value and have inspired countless paintings and photographs. Their
majestic and eerie beauty continues to attract large numbers of visitors to the national park areas that contain them.
The area of the original Kenilworth Station, along with a vast area in the Wide Bay district was initially inspected by Dr Stephen Simpson, the Commissioner of Crown Lands and
Reverend Stephen Eiper in 1843. Eiper was determining the suitability of the area for establishing a German settlement, and Simpson was investigating a crime. Joining the pair on this
early exploration was Richard Joseph Smith, a soldier who later became the original lessee of what was to become Kenilworth Station. The area was opened up for leasing in 1850, prior
to which depasturing licenses were issued each year. Smith applied for a five year lease of 22, 000 acres on the east bank of the Mary River on 18 August 1850 on which to run about 640
cattle. On the following day Smith tendered for another 18,000 acre run, known as North Kenilworth and adjoining the northern boundary of the Kenilworth Run. Smith's tender for both
runs was officially accepted on 30 April 1855 following a Commissioner's report of the area, although presumably Smith was occupying the land prior to this. Smith retained Kenilworth
Station for several years before transferring the lease to Charles Frederick Parkinson and Colin Fraser, who are believed to have been managing the station already. Parkinson and Fraser
were, like Smith, ex-military and it was Parkinson or his wife who is thought to have named the run in memory of the Walter Scott novel. Parkinson and Fraser transferred the run to
Ipswich merchant, Walter Gray in July 1860. Gray died shortly after acquiring Kenilworth and the property was transferred to Isaac Moore in 1863 who owned it for many years and is
believed to be responsible for the construction of the early homestead. Isaac Moore (1811-1903) arrived in Fryerstown on the Victorian gold fields in 1853 and ran a successful store. He
then relocated to Queensland to embark on pastoral pursuits. Moore went into partnership with WH Baynes on the Barambah Station and following Baynes' death Baynes' interest in the
station was purchased by Moore's sons. Moore was well known in the Wide Bay/Burnett district as a local politician. Moore increased the size of the Kenilworth Run to about 100 square
miles by adding to it other adjacent runs including Cambroon and Cordalba which he purchased at the same time as Kenilworth. Following the death of Isaac Moore in 1903, Kenilworth
Station was passed in equal one- quarter shares to his four children Hugh Moore, Isaac John Moore, Frances Annie Moore and Emma Isabella Mary Clarke. The sons assumed the
property and on Hugh Moore's death the property, still measuring 400 acres was transferred to Isaac John Moore. For many years the Rowe family have been interested in understanding
the history of the Gubbi Gubbi people, particularly where they were involved with Kenilworth Station. Recently reconciliation celebrations have been held by the family and the Gubbi
Gubbi people.
Significance Kenilworth Homestead, on one of the earliest stations established in the Gympie district, demonstrates the pattern of development in the area from nineteenth century
pastoralism. The resumption of a large part of Kenilworth during the 1920s, and the subsequent division into smaller farming properties and the nearby town of Kenilworth, is important
in demonstrating the pattern of land use and occupancy in rural Queensland during the early twentieth century. The principal residence, thought to date from about 1865, is an uncommon
and rare example of an early timber house demonstrating unusually high craftsmanship and quality of finish. The homestead is of social value for its long association with the local
community and as the earliest surviving homestead in the area.
Palmwoods to
Buderim
Tramway
Track
Foundation and
Formwork
Remnants
State
Heritage
Place
Telco Road,
QLD
Queensland's coastal areas north of Brisbane, and the hinterland, developed rapidly in the1880s. At Buderim, a settlement which developed to service the local farmers, was established
by the late 1880s. Shipping of farm and fruit produce from Buderim and surrounds was complicated by problems with the bar and silting of the Mooloolah and Maroochy rivers. There
was great competition in the region, and between regions, for development investment, with the port of Maryborough to the north being a rival for vital road funds. Maroochy Shire
Council established a committee in 1903 to consider the possibility of a tramway to Buderim. Differences arose between supporters of the Buderim/Palmwoods link, the
Buderim/Woombye link, and those lobbying to join with the Moreton sugar mill tramway system near Diddillibah, causing negotiations to continue for some time. The tramway began
operations on 1 December 1914 and was officially opened by the Minister for Railways on 18 June 1915. The official party and many others travelled to Buderim on the tram for the
ceremony in the School of Arts. With this steady means of transport the Buderim area boomed. The Nambour Chronicle of 16 August 1935 reported that 'fruit production increased
enormously, land values rose to great heights and further land was taken up by settlers at high prices. The tram, to cope with the traffic, had frequently to make two trips a day. The final
run of the Buderim tram occurred on 10 August 1935. The last duty of the Buderim tram was to assist in dismantling the railway by delivering the rails, which had been sold to the
Moreton Sugar Mill Co., to Palmwoods. Only the rails and engines are recorded as being sold, but the sleepers, bridges and most buildings were also removed at the time or later.
Significance the tramway, through the transport and communication facilities it provided, played a central role in the development of the region, and as such is important in
demonstrating the pattern of Queensland's history. The tramway was a specific response to the economic and social pressures encountered by Australian settlers at a particular phase of
the twentieth century. The influence of World War I and the following economic depression on the establishment, operation and closure of the tramway is also of historical significance.
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The tramway was funded by the local council, and remained under the control of the Maroochy Shire Council for the entire period of its operation. The tramway demonstrates an
uncommon aspect of Queensland's cultural heritage as a track with a gauge of two feet, six inches, and being of private construction. The place has a special association with the local
communities serviced by the tramway for social and cultural reasons. The tramway, as the transportation hub for the region, facilitated community participation in sporting and cultural
events, and provided a connection to Nambour and Brisbane.
Peachester
Public Dip
State
Heritage
Place
Peachester
Road, QLD
Cattle tick, Boophilus microplus was probably introduced into Darwin with cattle from Indonesia in the early 1870s. The tick spread south into other parts of the continent and became a
major problem for the cattle industry. In 1891 cattle tick reached Queensland bringing with it tick fever caused by three types of blood-born bacteria. By the mid-1890s the tick had
spread quickly to the south causing heavy losses among herds. The Queensland government's response to cattle tick-born tick fever was dipping cattle in infected areas and creating
designated tick-free zones with restricted movement of stock from tick-affected to tick-free areas. The Stock Act 1915 regulated the movement of cattle and empowered Stock Inspectors
to enforce tick control measures. Government cattle dips were established at the entry points between tick-infested and tick-free zones. Tick gates were located at various points on the
New South Wales-Queensland border. Between the late 1880s and the 1900s the dairy industry in Queensland grew rapidly. Queensland's total number of dairy cattle in 1898 was 80,000;
by 1910, this had grown to 350,000. Initially, dairying was concentrated in south-east Queensland and by the mid-1900s it was emerging as the principal rural industry of the North Coast
area. Major areas of development were along the fertile valleys of the main rivers and tributaries. At the local level, in response to a request from Peachester dairy farmers, the
Landsborough Shire Council built a wooden dip at the site of the Peachester Stock Dip Reserve. This was replaced by a concrete one built circa 1915 by a Landsborough man who built
several other dips on private properties in the area.
Significance Peachester Public Dip (built 1915) is important in demonstrating the evolution of the Queensland government's response to the threat to its cattle-based industries that the
spread of tick fever caused from the 1890s by providing public dips on reserved land. Peachester Public Dip is important as rare surviving evidence of the practice of plunge dipping cattle
at locally-developed, small public dips that was common in the first few decades of the 20th century. This practice has been largely superseded by large public dips at the borders of tickfree
areas and technological innovations in the treatment of cattle tick infestation.
Pioneer
Cottage
Buderim
State
Heritage
Place
5 Ballinger
Crescent, QLD
The residence now known as Pioneer Cottage Buderim was erected probably in the early 1880s for Buderim Mountain settlers John Kerle Burnett, his wife Ann North and family. It
remains one of the oldest surviving sawn-timber houses on the plateau, and currently functions as a house museum and headquarters of the Buderim Historical Society. The house was
built of local timbers - tallow wood (eucalyptus microcorys) for floor bearers, white beech (Gmelina leichhardtii) for floors, walls, and ceilings and red cedar (Toona australis) for joinery
- thought to have been felled on the property or acquired from nearby, and pit-sawn and handcrafted to make boards. Bricks for steps and a fireplace were hand-made, probably from
local clay. The core initially comprised a central hallway and 4 rooms - front parlour, front bedroom, rear dining room and rear bedroom. The latter was partitioned into two bedrooms at
a some stage - some Burnett descendants believe it was always partitioned. A short time later two attic bedrooms were added. Early photographs of the house show external walls of
deep boards and exposed timber stud framing, encircled by verandahs and resting on low stumps. The high-pitched shingled roof had a short ridge, and the verandah roofs, also shingled,
were supported on plain chamfered timber posts. Glass and timber-panelled French doors opened onto the verandahs from all rooms. The first front steps were of timber, but had been
replaced by 1907 with masonry steps. Between early 1907 and mid-1909, the verandah roofs were replaced with corrugated galvanised iron; later the whole roof was clad with iron. An
external oven and chimney is shown in the earliest photograph, dated c1880, but later a detached kitchen wing was built. Significance Pioneer Cottage, the former JK Burnett home
erected c1882-83, is important in demonstrating the early development of Buderim Mountain as an agricultural settlement, in particular the early success of sugar growing and sugar
milling in the district. It is one of the oldest surviving residences on the plateau, remains substantially intact, and demonstrates the principal characteristics of an early 1880s farmhouse
built of local timbers no longer generally available. The place has a special association for the Buderim community, as evidenced by their acquisition of the property for museum purposes
in the mid-1960s.
Star Flats
(former)
State
Heritage
Place
15 The
Esplanade, QLD
Star Flats is located on the esplanade at Cotton Tree, facing the Maroochy River. Built for Hubert Hoare between February 1935 and June 1937, this two-storeyed timber building was
constructed as purpose-built flats during a pronounced phase of tourist development at the seaside resort of Maroochydore. The building replaced an earlier weatherboard hut on a site that
had been taken up in the 1920s as two perpetual town leases. In February 1935 these leases were transferred to Hubert Hoare, a pineapple and citrus farmer from Woombye. Hoare and
his wife joined a number of families from inland districts in the Maroochy Shire who transferred their economic interests to coastal settlements, as tourism gained greater momentum.
They constructed Star Flats as purpose-built holiday rental accommodation and purchased an adjoining allotment on which they built their family residence. Star Flats was similar in
proportion and design to other large guesthouses and flats of this era found in Queensland resort areas. It was partitioned into four flats, two on each floor. They provided self-contained
private living spaces, ideal for families and other larger groups visiting the Maroochydore-Cotton Tree area over holiday periods. They were a more comfortable arrangement than
camping and offered an alternative to the serviced rooms and shared facilities of guesthouses and hotels.
Significance Star Flats, constructed between 1935 and 1937, is important in demonstrating the growth in popularity of seaside resorts on the Sunshine Coast (formerly known as the
North Coast), one of Queensland's major tourist destinations, and the evolution of tourist accommodation in Queensland prior to World War II. One of the few extant early timber
buildings constructed on the Maroochy River, Star Flats provides important evidence of the development of the resort area of Maroochydore, in particular the resulting increase in tourism
in the region facilitated by improved road access to the North Coast during the 1930s.
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St George's
Anglican
Church
Information
Source
State
Heritage
Place
Address
15 Cook Street,
QLD
Citation - Accepted
The land on which St George's Church was built was selected by Joseph Gridley who arrived in Brisbane on the James Fernie in 1856 with his wife Ellen and five children and moved to
the north coast hinterland in the late 1860s. In 1877 Joseph Gridley selected Portion 70 where the church now stands for timber getting. In 1886, the Colonial Government proposed a
township at Eumundi as a station on the railway line between Brisbane and Maryborough . The rail stop serviced the Eumundi timber getting area where selectors, including the Gridleys,
had selected land during the 1870s. Residential land was auctioned in 1890 and the rail line was opened in 1891. By 1893 a local provisional school was operating. During 1909 a request
was made to the local Council to subdivide for a new residential street which became known as Cook Street. It was in Cook Street that the Trustees for the Church of England bought
land and erected St George's Church. Other denominations had erected buildings in Eumundi including a Methodist church which was constructed in 1911 replacing an earlier 1893
building. St George's Anglican Church, originally St George's Church of England, was constructed in 1912 by local builder Mr J Carbury who is thought to have designed the building.
The Church remains substantially intact, with only a verandah addition to the northern side of the building constructed in 1997-8 and replacing an original narrower verandah.
Significance St George's Anglican Church, Cook Street was constructed in the early twentieth century. The Church is important in demonstrating the development of the Anglican
Church in Queensland and Eumundi during this time. St George's Anglican Church, Cook Street was constructed in the early twentieth century and is of aesthetic significance as a
picturesque and well executed example of a Gothic influenced timber ecclesiastical building. Many simple timber churches were constructed throughout Queensland, this example is
distinguished by the quality of its design and by its visual cohesion with the buildings in Cook Street. As a place of public worship for nearly 90 years, St George's Church of England has
social value for the local Anglican community.
St Isidore's
State
Heritage
Place
40 Post Office
Road, QLD
This substantial, high-set timber residence was erected in the early 1900s in at least two stages, for pioneer Mapleton orchardist William James Smith and his family, at their Seaview
Orchard at the top of the Blackall Range. In the 1920s the well-known Seaview Orchard was acquired by the Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, the Rev. James Duhig, who hoped to
develop it as St Isidore's Farm College. Although this and adjoining farms remained the property of the Church until the early 1950s, the college was never established.
Significance St Isidore's, erected in the early 1900s [in at least two stages] as the residence on Seaview Orchard, has historical significance for its association with the successful
development of the Blackall Range as one of the principal citrus-producing districts in Queensland in the early 20th century. The house is important in demonstrating the principal
characteristics of a substantial and well-detailed early 20th century rural residence. The place is significant for its association with WJ Smith and his family and their important
contribution to the establishment and growth of Mapleton and to the development of fruitgrowing in Queensland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Big
Pineapple
(former
Sunshine
Plantation)
State
Heritage
Place
Nambour
Connection
Road, QLD
The former Sunshine Plantation tourist attraction, now known as The Big Pineapple, is located on the north side of the Nambour Connection Road (former Bruce Highway), just to the
west of the current Bruce Highway. It holds a fond place in the memories of many domestic and overseas tourists who drove or were driven north of Brisbane on holiday road trips after
1971. Apart from the iconic value of the Big Pineapple structure itself, as a roadside attraction of the Big Thing variety, the entire 40 hectare complex, with its retail and restaurant spaces,
train ride and Nutmobile, crops, rainforest, Macadamia Nut Factory, Big Macadamia, Tomorrow's Harvest greenhouse, Farm Show, Wildlife Gardens, and Animal Nursery, represents an
early attempt at agri-tourism in Queensland. Big Things are large advertising objects, usually in the form of the item they are advertising, and are loosely defined as being at least twice
the size of the object they represent and at least twice human size. Big Things have been called outdoor cultural objects which serve to construct and assert the identity of a town or area,
and they have also been described as one of Australia's most distinctive home-grown forms of folk art. The Big Pineapple appears to be the most widely recognised Big Thing in
Queensland.
Significance The Big Pineapple complex, including the iconic Big Pineapple structure and associated tramway, train, nut mobile, attractions, activities, plantations and buildings, is
important in demonstrating the development of agri-tourism and roadside attractions in Queensland. The establishment of the Sunshine Plantation and its continued operation as the Big
Pineapple combines the operation of a tourist attraction and the promotion of tourism in the Sunshine Coast with the promotion of the area's tropical fruit production. The Big Pineapple
complex is important in demonstrating the characteristics of an agri-tourism attraction combining the entertainment of tourists with the promotion of the features, facilities and industries
of the region. As one of Queensland's first Big Things, the Big Pineapple structure is generally intact and retains its interior displays, internal staircase and distinctive fibre-glass shell.
The associated retail and restaurant buildings and the plantation setting remain. The Sunshine Plantation also attracted support from the local community, and had close associations with
key regional and state agricultural industry associations. The Big Pineapple structure has iconic and landmark status as one of Australia's most well-known Big Things. Its most recent
recognition is inclusion in a special stamp issue of Big Things by Australia Post.
Tramway Lift
Bridge over
Maroochy
River
State
Heritage
Place
Store Road,
QLD
In 1881 the Buderim Mountain Sugar Mill was established and also served many small farms, but both mills had failed by the end of the decade. In order for the mill to be successful, it
was essential to establish an efficient means for bringing the cane harvest in from surrounding farms to be crushed. Tramway networks carrying wagons drawn by steam locomotives had
been used effectively in other Queensland sugar districts since the 1880s, so possible routes for a tramway network were surveyed as part of the planning for the Moreton Mill. A twofoot
(610mm) gauge was chosen for the sake of economy, speed not being an important factor in the running of the tramway, though the wagons were at first pulled by horses. In 1897
the first tramlines were constructed and the first harvest was crushed at the mill. In 1917 a lift up bridge was constructed over Petrie's Creek. In 1920, the mill board sought permission
from the state government to bridge the Maroochy River and this was granted on 10 May 1920. The new bridge was also a lift bridge and was completed by August 1921. The lift up
bridge over Petrie Creek no longer exists and the Maroochy River bridge is now a very rare example of its type in Queensland and may be the only example surviving.
Significance The Moreton Central Sugar Mill operated between 1897 and December 2003. During the 20th century, sugar growing was the most important primary industry in the
Maroochy district. It was a key factor in the development of Nambour and the Maroochy Shire and important in the growth of the sugar industry in Queensland. The cane tramway, which
brought cane from many farms to the mill for crushing, was an essential part of the operation of the mill. The line between Nambour and Coolum was also used for passengers in the
1920s and 30s and was instrumental in the development of the tourist industry in the area, by linking the QR station next to the Nambour mill with resort areas at Coolum and
Maroochydore. The timber lift bridge that carries the tramway across the Maroochy River is rare and may be the only surviving bridge of its type in Queensland. The bridge, though small
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Information
Source
Address
Citation - Accepted
in scale, demonstrates the principle and working of a lift bridge well, having a moveable span set between two towers and pulleys and counterweights which raise the span to allow river
traffic to pass underneath.
Tripcony
Hibiscus
Cravan Park
State
Heritage
Place
Bowman Road,
QLD
The North Coast region including Caloundra began to develop as a holiday destination at the end of the 19th century. Caloundra and other sites in south-east Queensland such as
Tewantin, the Redcliffe Peninsula and Southport developed as resorts. Tripcony Hibiscus Caravan Park is located between Bowman Road and Pumicestone Passage on a site long
recognised as the entrance to Caloundra. The caravan park has two sections separated by Pumicestone Creek. Tripcony is located on the coast guard (eastern) side of Pumicestone Creek
while Hibiscus is situated on the Leach's Park (western) side of the Creek. The whole of this land (20 acres) was reserved for wharf purposes by 1877, demonstrating the importance of
transportation to the early township. It was later re-designated as a camping reserve in 1912 as the settlement's popularity as a seaside resort increased. As motorised transport became
dominant and leisure time increased, particularly post-World War II, this site was converted into a caravan park to meet the needs of the growing number of caravanning holiday-makers
whose destination was the North Coast (later Sunshine Coast). Its still-water seaside location in close proximity to a major road with easy access for cars, and its range of accommodation
and amenities, which have evolved over time, demonstrate all the features of a typical caravan park. Local communities and visitors have come to attach special significance to caravan
parks as places of leisure, which has been demonstrated by their efforts to protect council-operated caravan parks on Crown land along the Queensland coast. The current lessee of the
Tripcony Hibiscus Caravan Park site, SEQ Properties, has been offered a new 30-year lease of the site for caravan park purposes. This followed an exhaustive investigation into options
for the future use of the site culminating in the announcement by the Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, that the continuing use of the site as a caravan park demonstrated her
Government's commitment to retaining caravan parks on State-owned land for low-cost tourism.
Significance Tripcony Hibiscus Caravan Park is important in demonstrating the pattern of development of the Sunshine Coast, an important region for the development of seaside tourism
in Queensland. Originally gazetted as a Wharf and Water reserve in 1877 and re-gazetted for Camping and Recreation purposes in 1912, Tripcony Hibiscus Caravan Park has sustained its
use as a seaside camping ground. It illustrates the policy of colonial Queensland governments of reserving Crown land for public purposes, a practice which was common but is now rare.
Tripcony Hibiscus Caravan Park represents a land use and custom that has made a strong contribution to the pattern and evolution of Queensland's tourism history. It is an excellent
example of a camping and caravanning site that has been used by Queensland holiday-makers since 1912. Located adjacent to an area of quiet water allowing easy access for swimming,
boating and fishing activities, Tripcony Hibiscus Caravan Park is important in illustrating the essential characteristics of early camping reserves.
North Coast
Roadside Rest
Areas
State
Heritage
Place
Petrie; Jowarra,
Landsborough;
Paynter's Creek,
Woombye
The roadside rest areas, constructed by the Main Roads Commission (MRC) from the early 1950s on the old Bruce Highway and on roads feeding onto the highway (at Petrie; Jowarra,
Landsborough; Paynter's Creek, Woombye) represent a pattern of development of the tourist industry in Queensland intrinsically linked to the rise of motor transport Australia-wide in the
second half of the 20th century. Amenities available for travellers at areas were dependent on their size. Smaller areas offered a table and seat and a fireplace, sufficient to stop, eat, drink
and continue. Larger areas provided tables and seats in the open and under 'rustic' shelters, fireplaces, water tanks (unless on creeks), 'swinging' rubbish bins and toilets. A number of
areas were extensively planted with trees to make them more attractive.
Significance the old Bruce Highway (and feeder road) Rest Areas [Petrie, Jowarra and Paynter's Creek] (1951-1960) are among the earliest known places of this type associated with a
highway that was, at the time, Queensland's most important tourist road. As such, they demonstrate an important phase in the evolution of the State's road network and tourist industry.
The early 1950s saw a major increase in medium to long-distance car travel and tourism. The road rest areas were developed to accommodate this trend by providing places at convenient
locations where motorists could rest or camp. Petrie, Jowarra and Paynter's Creek road rest areas are fine examples of this place type. Designed to provide a place for travellers to stop to
rest, eat and drink before continuing on their journey, they are located in road reserves and/or scenic spots, being easily accessible from a roadway, providing convenient parking for
vehicles and accommodating picnic tables and barbeque facilities. Petrie and Jowarra also provide camping and van parking spaces and toilets.
Additional from 29/07/2009 missed from prior research
The Former Landsborough Shire Council offices were erected in 1924. The Landsborough Shire Council was formed in 1912 when parts of Caboolture Shire were subdivided for the new
local authority. The Landsborough Shire erected a Council residence and one room office in1913. The first purpose built chambers were opened in 1924. The building was designed by
Brisbane architect WC Voller and constructed by AE Round. It comprised a council chamber, two offices and strong room. The building ceased to operate as council offices when the
administration function was relocated to Caloundra in 1974. The building now forms part of the Landsborough Historical Museum Significance The former Landsborough Shire Council
Chambers are significant for associations with local government in the district and evidence of the former central role of Landsborough in the Shire.
Former Shire
Office
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
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Landsborough
Monument
Information
Source
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Address
Landsborough
Parade, Golden
Beach (CA49)
Citation - Accepted
The William Landsborough Monument was erected in 1939. William Landsborough (1825-1886) migrated to New South Wales in 1841. He undertook a number of successful
expeditions throughout northern Australia in the 1850s and early 1860s. He led the first north-south crossing of the continent by Europeans. Landsborough served as the Police Magistrate
and Commissioner for Crown Lands for the Burke district (1866-1870) and then took up road surveying and tin mining. Landsborough purchased Loch Lamerough on Pumicestone
Passage in 1881. He died in 1886 and was buried beside the sea near his home. In 1939 his grave was uncovered during the construction of a road to the Military Jetty. His remains were
re- interred in the Toowong Cemetery and a memorial cairn erected. Significance William Landsborough is regarded as one of the more successful Europeans explorers in northern
Australia. His expeditions were achieved with little drama such as confronted by Burke and Wills. He was also instrumental in establishing government services in the remote Gulf of
Carpentaria.
Former
Landsborough
Shire
Chambers
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
6 Maleny Street
(LH11)
The Former Landsborough Shire Council offices were erected in 1924. The Landsborough Shire Council was formed in 1912 when parts of Caboolture Shire were subdivided for the new
local authority. The Landsborough Shire erected a Council residence and one room office in1913. The first purpose built chambers were opened in 1924. The building was designed by
Brisbane architect WC Voller and constructed by AE Round. It comprised a council chamber, two offices and strong room. The building ceased to operate as council offices when the
administration function was relocated to Caloundra in 1974. The building now forms part of the Landsborough Historical Museum Significance The former Landsborough Shire Council
Chambers are significant for associations with local government in the district and evidence of the former central role of Landsborough in the Shire.
Grigor Graves
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Old Gympie
Road near
Coonowrin
Creek (GE21)
William and Mary Grigor erected a house in 1868 on the route to the Gympie goldfields. Bankfoot House provided accommodation and meals for travellers. Three of their children died
in a five year period and were buried nearby. The small burial ground contains the graves of David (1874), Margaret (1878) and Robert (1879). The burial ground also contains the grave
of an Aboriginal child. Significance The Grigor Graves are significant for their association with the Grigor family and Bankfoot House. Bankfoot House and the associated structures and
features are the most intact evidence of a staging post on the Old Gympie Road. The graves are also significant as evidence of the hardships faced by families in rural Queensland in the
19th century. The presence of the grave of an Aboriginal child indicates that relationships with local indigenous groups were not always hostile but rapport did exist.
Glass House
Mountains
Railway Station
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Reed street
(GE22)
Glass House railway station was opened in February 1890, soon after the completion of the Caboolture-Landsborough section of the North Coast Line. The station was known as
Coonowrin until 1914 when the name was changed to Glass House Mountains. The station building was a standard 19th century plan distinguished by a mono-plane roof sloping away
from the platform. Additions were undertaken and the building now comprises office, waiting shed, store and toilets. Significance The Glass House Mountains station is an example of a
late 19th century small timber station distinguished by a mono-plane roof with platform shelter.
The Palms
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Gympie Street
North (LH20)
The Palms was erected c 1915 for John Tytherleigh. The house is built on the site of the first hall in Landsborough. In 1894 Tytherleigh rented part of the hall and opened a small store.
Tytherleigh later purchased the hall. C1915 he moved the hall to Cribb Street, opposite the railway station. A lowset timber house was erected on the site. A group of mature palms are
located along the southern boundary and are an important local landmark. Significance The Palms is significant as a local landmark and good example of an early 20th century timber
house.
Peace
Memorial Park
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
landsboroughmaleny
Road
(LH36)
Throughout Australia, the most common response to remember and honour those men and women who had served in the Great War of 1914-1918 was the erection of a monument of
stone situated in a highly visible location. Some communities chose more practical memorials such as hospitals, community halls, avenues of trees or, in the case of Landsborough, a
memorial park. The land for the park was donated by Arthur Bennett in 1919. A formal entrance comprising concrete posts and metal gates was erected in 1922 and inscribed LPMP
(Landsborough Peace Memorial Park). A rotunda (later demolished) was erected in 1926. The park contains a number of mature trees including a Sausage Tree (Kigelia africana).
Significance The Landsborough Peace Memorial Park was the response by local residents to the loss and suffering experienced by the community as a result of World War 1. The park is
significant as a less common form of World War 1 memorial. It was a practical expression of commemoration rather than the more common memorial of stone.
Former
Anglican
Church of St
George
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
15 Bunya Street
(MY12)
This church was erected c1925 in Beerburrum. After the demise of the soldier settlement scheme the building was demolished and rebuilt in Maleny. The Anglican church sold the
building when a new church was erected on the outskirts of the town. It is currently used as a pottery and retail outlet. Significance The former Anglican Church of St George is
significant for its associations with the Anglican community in the Maleny district.
Presbyterian
Church
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Cedar Street
(MY13)
The first Presbyterian services were held in Maleny in 1907. Services were held in the Union Church which was shared by several denominations. A small timber church was opened in
1939 and services continue to be held regularly in the building. Significance The Maleny Presbyterian Church is a fine example of a small timber church in a country town. The building
is significant for its associations with the Presbyterianism within the Maleny district.
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Good Shepherd
Lutheran
Church
Information
Source
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Address
Witta Road
(MY14)
Citation - Accepted
The Good Shepherd Lutheran Church was opened and dedicated on 22 January 1911. The first German farmers arrived in the area in the late 1880s and early 1890s as part of a group
settlement scheme. They called the district Teutoberg. The Lutheran Church commenced services in the district in 1892. A small timber church was erected in 1892 and regular services
of worship continue to be held in the building. Significance The Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is significant as evidence of the role of the Lutheran Church in the Witta district. In
particular, it is evidence of the prominent role played by German settlers in the development of Witta district.
Mary
Cairncross
Scenic Reserve
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Mountain View
Road (MY81)
Mary Cairncross Park and reserve comprises 50 ha on Mountain View road. In 1943 Mabel and Elizabeth Thynne donated 40 ha (100 acres) to the Landsborough Shire Council in
memory of their mother Mary (nee Cairncross). An additional 10 ha (25 acres) was added to the park by the Landsborough Shire Council to form the park which was opened by Sir Henry
Abel Smith in 1960. Significance Mary Cairncross Park is significant both as an area of remnant vegetation and also the vistas to the Glass House Mountains, Sunshine Coast and
Pumicestone Passage.
Old Witta
School
Community
Centre
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
Witta Road
(MY98)
A provisional school was opened in the Teutoberg district in 1892. The first Europeans to settle permanently in the area were principally German families from the Logan district who
came as part of a group settlement scheme. The first school was a simple timber structure. This building was replaced by a new building in c1920. This building was a standard 'sectional
plan' school comprising two classrooms enclosed by verandahs on two sides. One verandah was later enclosed when the school closed and children from the district were bussed to school
in Maleny. The grounds comprise a cricket pitch, a row of mature trees along Witta Road and an extensive stand of hoop pines at the rear of the site. Significance The former Witta State
School is significant as a good example of an interwar 'sectional plan' school. Although no longer in use as a school, evidence of the original use survives. The site is significant for its
associations with education in the Witta district. The mature trees and landscaping enhance the significance of the site.
Cromhamhurst
Observatory
Majestic
Theatre
Tom Blake
(2001) &
CCP 2004
State
Heritage
Place
Crohamhurst
Road (PR21)
3 Factory Street,
QLD
Inigo Jones (1872-1954) was a noted meteorologist and long- range weather forecaster. At the age of 16 years, he joined the staff of the Meteorological Office in Brisbane. In 1893 he left
the office to undertake long range weather forecasting on his father's dairy farm near Peachester. Crohamhurst became the base for his work over the next 35 years. Dairying continued as
the major activity on the farm and in 1927 Jones realised that more substantial premises were required for his work. In 1935 a new Observatory was constructed on a hill to the north of
the farm house. The Observatory was officially opened by the then Governor, Sir Leslie Wilson, on 13 August 1935. The work of the Observatory was to take daily observations of the
sun and in all weather conditions so as to test the possibility of the immediate solar control of the weather and the applications of these possibilities to the weather of Australia, to issue
forecasts to the press, and to test the hypothesis of seasonal repetitions through cycles. In 1953 Inigo Jones employed Robert Lennox Walker as an assistant. Walker took over the work in
1954 following Jones' death. Walker subsequently became well known as Queensland's long range weather forecaster. Significance Crohamhurst Observatory is significant for its
associations with long range weather forecasting in Queensland since the mid 1930s. The site is synonymous with Inigo Jones and Lennox Walker who established national reputations as
long range weather forecasters.
The Majestic Theatre in Pomona, a venue that has shown films continuously since 1921, is important in demonstrating the development of picture theatres in Queensland and the part that
picture-going played in the life of rural Queenslanders from the 1920s to the 1950s. The Majestic Theatre, constructed as the Majestic Hall and modified in the 1930s to show "talkies",
also demonstrates the evolution of film exhibition venues in Queensland, whereby community halls were often used to show pictures, prior to converting the hall into a picture theatre, or
constructing a purpose-built cinema. In addition, it demonstrates the practice of independent film exhibition by owner-operators in rural Queensland towns. Although the Majestic Theatre
was recently refurbished, its floor plan and design still illustrates the characteristics of a small rural picture theatre that has been adapted from a local hall. The Majestic Theatre at 3
Factory Street Pomona, which was originally built as a social hall with attached shops in 1921, has been promoted as the oldest authentic silent movie theatre in the world, and the longest
continuously operating movie theatre in Australia. The development of the Majestic Theatre in Pomona reflected wider trends in Queensland's society. Moving pictures became a popular
form of entertainment in Queensland soon after the first films were exhibited in Brisbane in the late 1890s. Hotels were often associated with early picture shows, especially in rural areas,
where films might be shown in an adjacent hall or garden. In late 2006 the land on which the theatre stands was transferred to Pomona Progress Art Tourism Inc, a community group
which intends to run the Majestic Theatre as an all-purpose entertainment venue.
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