Conondale is a rural town and

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in the Sunshine Coast Region,

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, Australia. In the , Conondale had a population of 858 people.

Geography

The town is in the Sunshine Coast hinterland area. The town is located on the banks of the upper Mary River, north of the state capital,

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History

The town takes its name from a pastoral run assigned by pastoralist Donald Tuach McKenzie when it took up the property on 6 October 1851. It is thought he named it after the Conon River in Ross and Cromarty,

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. In November 1906, a sub-division of the former Conondale Station, the Conondale Estate, described as 14,000 acres in one of the best agricultural and dairying districts in the Commonwealth, was advertised for sale. The auctioneers offered to forward an illustrated lithograph to any address. As a new departure in the sub-division of estates, a butter factory was built by the vendors as part of the sale. However, the butter factory never operated and the building was later demolished, with the timbers used for the construction of a house at Moffat Beach. Conondale Provisional School and Flagstone Creek Provisional Schools opened in September 1912 both on a half-time basis, meaning that a single teacher was shared between the two schools. In 1913 Flagstone Creek Provisional School was renamed Conondale South Provisional School. In 1915 Conondale South Provisional School was closed and Conondale Provisional School continued with the teacher on a full-time basis. It experienced occasional closures due to lack of students or unavailability of a teacher. In 1933 it became Conondale State School. Conondale Post Office opened by 1949 (a

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or Telegraph office had been open from 1904) and closed in 1974. In the , the locality of Conondale had a population of 858 people.

Heritage listings

Conondale has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: * Aherns Road: Conondale Timbers Sawmill

Education

Conondale State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 1700 Maleny-Kenilworth Road (). In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 92 students with 10 teachers (6 full-time equivalent) and 10 non-teaching staff (5 full-time equivalent). It includes a

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program.

Amenities

The

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operates a

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service which visits the school on Maleny-Kenilworth Road.

Crystal Waters ecovillage

Conondale is home to the Crystal Waters

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which provides accommodation for 200 residents. It was established formally in 1987 making it one of the first in Australia.

References

External links

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Town map of Conondale, 1983
{{authority control Towns in Queensland Suburbs of the Sunshine Coast Region Localities in Queensland