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Cremorne is a
Cremorne is on the northern bank of the
Arriving in 1863, John Greenwood Barnes was the first settler on the northern band of the Pioneer River. He experimented with growing edible tropical plants such as breadfruit, mango, guava,
locality
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in the Mackay Region
The Mackay Region is a local government area located in North Queensland, Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it was preceded by three previous local government areas with modern histories extending back as far as 1869.
It has an estima ...
, Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
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, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
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, established_title = Before federation
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, Australia. In the , Cremorne had a population of 33 people.
Geography
Cremorne is on the northern bank of the Pioneer River
The Pioneer River is a river located in North Queensland, Australia. The long river flows through the city of .
History
Captain John Mackay and his party were the first Europeans to discover the river in 1860. Mackay named it Mackay River af ...
in the centre of Mackay Mackay may refer to:
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* Mackay Region, a local government area
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. The Forgan Smith Bridge crosses from central Mackay over the Pioneer River and through Cremorne to North Mackay
North Mackay is a suburb of Mackay in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , North Mackay had a population of 5,933 people.
Although in present times North Mackay is an officially and precisely bounded area, historically and in inf ...
. The Pioneer River forms the southern boundary of the locality and Barnes Creek forms the northern boundary. Most of the western part of the locality is parkland (largely undeveloped); there is a small number of industrial buildings around the Forgan Smith Bridge.
History
Arriving in 1863, John Greenwood Barnes was the first settler on the northern band of the Pioneer River. He experimented with growing edible tropical plants such as breadfruit, mango, guava, pineapple
The pineapple (''Ananas comosus'') is a tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae. The pineapple is indigenous to South America, where it has been cultivated for many centuri ...
s etc. on behalf of botanist Ferdinand von Mueller, the curator of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria are botanic gardens across two sites–Melbourne and Cranbourne.
Melbourne Gardens was founded in 1846 when land was reserved on the south side of the Yarra River for a new botanic garden. It extends across ...
. However his greatest success was with coconut palms which he first planted in 1868 and then expanded to a plantation of 1200 trees.
In 1884, Barnes erected a two-storey hotel with a promenade roof. Working with his father-in-law William Seaward, he developed pleasure gardens called Cremorne Gardens thought to be modelled on the Cremorne Gardens in Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
(Barnes had lived in Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
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before moving to Queensland). In January 1898 the hotel was damaged by Cyclone Eline and then demolished by the January 1918 cyclone.
References
External links
{{Mackay Region Mackay Region Localities in Queensland