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County Of Lennox
The County of Lennox is a county (a cadastral division) in Queensland, Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma .... Like all counties in Queensland, it is a non-functional administrative unit, that is used mainly for the purpose of registering land titles. The county consists of the inland region forming the western parts of the Gympie and Fraser Coast regions.Wide Bay/Burnett District, County of Lennox Maps - D6 Series
at Queensland Archives. It was officially named and bounded by the
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) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk ( ALP) , legislature = Parliament of Queensland , judiciary = Supreme Court of Queensland , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_type ...
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Brooloo, Queensland
Brooloo is a rural town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Brooloo had a population of 348 people. Geography The town is located in the hinterland behind the Sunshine Coast, north of the state capital, Brisbane. Mary Valley Road enters the locality from the north-west (Imbil), passes through the town (in the north of the locality), and then exits to the south-east Kenilworth. Brooloo railway station is an abandoned railway station on the now-closed Mary Valley railway line (). History The Bluff Provisional School opened in July 1907. On 1 January 1909 it became The Bluff State School. In May 1915 it was renamed Brooloo State School. It closed in 1970. Brooloo Hall opened in 1915. Brooloo Post Office opened by June 1915 (a receiving office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, pac ...
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Counties Of Queensland
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or a viscount.The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, C. W. Onions (Ed.), 1966, Oxford University Press Literal equivalents in other languages, derived from the equivalent of "count", are now seldom used officially, including , , , , , , , and ''zhupa'' in Slavic languages; terms equivalent to commune/community are now often instead used. When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them. The Saxons had already established the districts that became the historic counties of England, calling them shires;Vision of Britai– Type details for ancient county. Retrieved 31 March 2012 many county names derive from the name of the county town (county seat) with th ...
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Jones Hill, Queensland
Jones Hill is a rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Jones Hill had a population of 1,135 people. Geography Jones Hill is south of Gympie's central business district A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides with the "city ... on the south-western bank of the Mary River. Historically farm land, as at 2023, the land use is mostly residential with smaller suburban land parcels in the north-west of the locality and the rest of the locality being larger rural residential blocks. Some land is used for agriculture, a mix of grazing on native vegetation and irrigated horticulture. History Jones Hill State School opened on 29 January 1902. Demographics At the Jones Hill had a population of 550 people. In the , Jones Hill had a population of 898 people. In ...
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Southside, Queensland
Southside is a semi-rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Southside had a population of 5,737 people. Geography Southside is on the south-western bank of the Mary River. Its name reflects its location south of the Gympie town centre. History The locality was originally known as Gympie South. Gympie South Side State School opened on 4 July 1910. On 13 May 1954 it was renamed Gympie South State School. In November 1937, the Methodist Church at Chatsworth was relocated to a new site adjacent to the South Side State School (about away, where it was officially opened by Reverend Ira Menear. It originally opened as Chatsworth Wesleyan Methodist Church opened on Sunday 16 August 1885 and was on the Chatsworth Road (now the Bruce Highway). Cooloola Christian College opened in 1992. Gympie Wesleyan Methodist Church opened on 15 January 2006. A congregation was formed as a church plant of the Mary Valley Wesleyan Methodist Church (based in Amamoo ...
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Brooweena, Queensland
Brooweena is a rural town and locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Brooweena had a population of 104 people. Geography The town is located in the Wide Bay–Burnett area and is north of the state capital, Brisbane. It is on the Maryborough–Biggenden Road. The north-west of the locality includes a large portion of the Wongi National Park and the Wongi State Forest. History The name ''Brooweena'' is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning ''crab''. The town was established following the arrival of the Mungar Junction to Monto Branch Railway in 1889. Brooweena Post Office opened on 23 December 1889. Braemar Provisional School opened on 21 January 1901 and closed on 1 July 1935. It closed in 1922 due to low attendances. It reopened in 1924 and closed on 1 July 1935 and the students were transferred to the newly-opened Woocoo State School (which closed in 1961). Braemar is the name of a pastoral property south of Brooweena. Brooweena Provisio ...
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Kilkivan, Queensland
Kilkivan is a town and locality in the Gympie Region of Queensland, Australia. At the , Kilkivan had a population of 713. Geography The town is situated on the Wide Bay Highway, north of the state capital, Brisbane and west of Gympie. One Mile Creek () meanders through the town, east of the Wide Bay Highway. The town lies in the Mary River drainage basin. Rossmore is a neighbourhood within the locality to the south-west of the town of Kilkivan (). History Kilkivan was first inhabited by the Wakka Wakka tribe of the Australian Aboriginal peoples. The town was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s. Queensland’s first gold discovery was at Kilkivan in 1852 and subsequent findings escalated into a gold rush in the 1860s. The town was named for a pastoral run owned by pastoralist John Daniel MacTaggart (1823–1871) after his father's farm name near Drumlemble, Kintyre, Scotland. The nearby Australian 'Glenbarr' property owned by MacTaggart was also named for a nearby ...
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Oakhurst, Queensland
Oakhurst is a locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Oakhurst had a population of 1,444 people. History Originally Oakhurst was split between the Shire of Woocoo and the City of Maryborough. However, on 2 July 2010, it was regazetted as being solely within the Fraser Coast Region. Geography The '' Mary River'' forms part of the south-east boundary. Road infrastructure The Maryborough–Biggenden Road Maryborough–Biggenden Road is an road route in the Fraser Coast and North Burnett regions of Queensland, Australia. The entire route is signed as State Route 86. The Maryborough–Biggenden Road (number 478) is a state-controlled distric ... (State Route 86) runs through from east to west. References Fraser Coast Region Localities in Queensland {{Queensland-geo-stub ...
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Mungar, Queensland
Mungar is a rural locality in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mungar had a population of 309 people. Geography Mungar is north of the state capital Brisbane and south west of the regional centre of Maryborough. The Mungar Junction to Monto Branch Railway branches from the North Coast railway line at Mungar. History Mary River Saw Mill Provisional School opened on 9 July 1875. On 24 Sep 1877 it was renamed Mungar State School. At the , Mungar and the surrounding area had a population of 264. Education Mungar State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 1143 Mungar Road (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 44 students with 3 teachers (2 full-time equivalent) and 4 non-teaching staff (3 full-time equivalent). See also *Mungar railway station Mungar railway station (also known as Mungar Junction railway station) is a closed railway station on the North Coast railway line, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunsh ...
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Kenilworth, Queensland
Kenilworth is a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Kenilworth had a population of 558 people. Geography Kenilworth is in the heart of the Mary Valley area of the Sunshine Coast. It is a rural area, about from the coast, with dairy farming as the major industry. The western part of the locality is within the Conondale National Park, while the northern part of the locality is within Imbil State Forest #1. In the south-west is the Walli State Forest. Maleny–Kenilworth Road enters from the south-west, and Obi Obi Road enters from the south-east.. History Dalla (also known as Dalambara and Dallambara) is a language of the Upper Brisbane River catchment, notably the Conondale Range. Dalla is part of the Duungidjawu language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Somerset Region and Moreton Bay Region, particularly the towns of Caboolture, Kilcoy, Woodford and Moore. The M ...
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Sunshine Coast Region
The Sunshine Coast Region is a local government area located in the Sunshine Coast district of South East Queensland, Australia. It was created by the amalgamation in 2008 of the City of Caloundra and the Shires of Maroochy and Noosa. It contains of roads, of coastline and a population of 351,424 in January 2021. The budget for the 2020–2021 financial year totals A$782 million including $243 million for Capital Works. On 1 January 2014, the Shire of Noosa was re-established independent of the Sunshine Coast Regional council. History ''Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi, Cabbee, Carbi, Gabi Gabi)'' is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Gubbi Gubbi country. The Gubbi Gubbi language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Sunshine Coast Region and Gympie Region, particularly the towns of Caloundra, Noosa Heads, Gympie and extending north towards Maryborough and south to Caboolture''.'' Prior to 2008, the new Sunshine Coast Region was an ...
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Glastonbury, Queensland
Glastonbury is a rural town and locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ..., Australia. In the , the locality of Glastonbury had a population of 351 people. Geography Greendale is a neighbourhood in the north of the locality (). History Glastonbury Provisional School opened on 16 August 1879. On 1 January 1909, it became Glastonbury State School. It closed on 6 June 1960. It was also known as Glastonbury Creek State School. Greendale Provisional School opened on 21 October 1930 and closed in 1941. It reopened in 1947 and in 1948 became Greendale State School. It closed on 5 June 1960. In the , the locality of Glastonbury had a population of 351 people. Heritage listings Glastonbury has the following heritage sites: * 1329 Gl ...
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