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Tully State School
Tully State School is a heritage-listed state school at 17 Mars Street, Tully, Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Department of Public Works (Queensland) and built from 1936 to 1937. It is also known as Tully Rural School. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 January 1995. History Tully State School was constructed in 1936–37 on the site of the original school, which was destroyed by fire. The town of Tully (initially known as Banyan) was established in the early 1920s, following the Queensland Government's decision in 1922 to erect a sugar mill in the Tully River Valley. The mill buildings were erected 1924–25, and with the mill came the roads, railway, bridges and the township of Tully. The latter originated as a shanty town near Banyan Creek, but was surveyed as the town of Tully in April 1924. A temporary state school was opened in a galvanised iron shed on the mill site on 30 June 1924, and a purpose-designed timber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tully, Queensland
Tully is a town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is adjacent to the Bruce Highway, approximately south of Cairns by road and north of Townsville. At the , the population was 2,390. Tully is perhaps best known for being one of the wettest towns in Australia and home to the 7.9 metre tall Golden Gumboot. The Tully River (previously known as the Mackay River) was named after Surveyor-General William Alcock Tully in the 1870s. The town of Tully was named after the river when it was surveyed during the erection of the sugar mill in 1924 (although the river does not flow through the town or the locality). During the previous decade, a settlement known as Banyan had grown up on the other side of Banyan Creek. Tully is one of the larger towns of the Cassowary Coast Region. The economic base of the region is agriculture: sugar cane and bananas are the dominant crops. The sugar cane grown at the many farms in the district is processed locally at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
