Eurombah is a rural

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split between the

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and the

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, Australia. In the , Eurombah had a population of 100 people.

Geography

The '' Dawson River'' forms part of the northern boundary. The Roma-Taroom Road runs through from south-west to north-east. The neighbourhoods of Peek-A-Doo and Hornet Bank are within the locality.

History

The

Hornet Bank massacre The Hornet Bank massacre was the killing of eleven British settlers, which included eight members of the Fraser family, by a group of mostly Yiman people, Yiman Indigenous Australians. The massacre occurred at about one or two o'clock in the mor ...

in 1857 happened nearby. The Peek-A-Doo State School opened on 3 February 1964 at 10118 Roma Taroom Road (). It was mothballed on 13 April 2010 (having no students). In June 2010, there was outrage when it was announced that the then-mothballed school would be allocated $250,000 by the Australian Government's

Building the Education Revolution Building the Education Revolution (BER) was an Government of Australia, Australian government program administered by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) designed to provide new and refurbished infrastructur ...

school building program to construct a resource centre. However, it was not constructed as the school closed on 31 December 2010. The school's website was archived.

Demographics

In the , Eurombah had a population of 67 people. In the , Eurombah had a population of 100 people.

Heritage listings

Eurombah has a number of

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sites, including: *

Fraser family grave site and memorial, Hornet Bank The Fraser family grave site and memorial at Hornet Bank is a heritage-listed cemetery and memorial at Hornet Bank Station, Hornet Bank Road, Eurombah near Taroom, Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It was added to the Queensland Heritage ...

: Hornet Bank Road ():

Education

There are no schools in Eurombah. The nearest primary schools are Taroom State School in

Taroom Taroom is a town in the Shire of Banana and suburbs and localities (Australia), locality split between the Shire of Banana and the Western Downs Region in Queensland, Australia. In the , Taroom had a population of 885 people. Geography The t ...

and Gromont State School in Grosmont. The nearest secondary schools are Taroom State School and Wandoan State School in Wandoan, but both of these schools provide education only to Year 10. For schooling to Year 12, the nearest option is Roma State College in

Roma Roma or ROMA may refer to: People, characters, figures, names * Roma or Romani people, an ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas. * Roma called Roy, ancient Egyptian High Priest of Amun * Roma (footballer, born 1979), born ''Paul ...

, away. Other alternatives are

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and

boarding school A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. They have existed for many centuries, and now extend acr ...

References

{{Banana Shire Western Downs Region Shire of Banana Localities in Queensland