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Forest Hill State School
Forest Hill State School is a state school with a heritage-listed teacher's residence at 15 Church Street, Forest Hill, Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Department of Public Works and built from 1892 to 1906 by Luder. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 1 May 2015. History Forest Hill Provisional School opened in January 1893 in a small timber teaching building which was built to a standard government design. The provisional school building was constructed during 1892 on a site in Church Street, in the agricultural settlement of Forest Hill. When a new state school building was constructed in 1898, the provisional school building was converted, with additions, into a teacher's residence, with further additions constructed . Although the state school teaching buildings (1898 and ) have since been replaced, the former provisional school building is still used as a teacher's residence, and two mature bunya trees (Arauca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Hill, Queensland
Forest Hill is a rural town and locality in the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Forest Hill had a population of 968 people. Geography The town is located west of the state capital, Brisbane and east of the regional centre of Toowoomba. Forest Hill railway station is an abandoned railway station on the Main Line railway (). There is an aircraft landing ground between Gatton Laidley Road and the railway line (). History In 1880, AJ Boyd purchased 975 acres (394.6 hectares) of land from the Queensland Government for reportedly five shillings an acre. The land was located approximately six kilometres south from the Main Line railway, towards Woodlands. Boyd named this property Forest Hill, after seeing Allan Cunningham's map of the region where he had marked a "forest hill". A stopping place was established on the Main Line railway to service the property called Boyd's Siding which later changed its name to Forest Hill. Forest Hill was recorded as a ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
