Kingsborough is a small historic mining town in the

locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ...

of Thornborough in the

Shire of Mareeba The Shire of Mareeba is a local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity f ...

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ...

, Australia. It was part of the

Hodgkinson Minerals Area The Hodgkinson Mineral Area was a mining area near the Hodgkinson River about west of Cairns in the present-day Shire of Mareeba in Queensland, Australia. It was the site of a gold rush in the 1870s. History Prospector James Venture Mulligan ...

History

Kingston Post Office opened around 1876, was renamed Kingsborough in 1877 and closed in 1924. A Roman Catholic chapel opened in 1878. The Town of Kingsborough appears on a 1880 survey plan. Kingsborough State School opened circa 1882 and closed in 1924.

Heritage listings

Kingsborough has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: *

General Grant Mine General Grant Mine is a heritage-listed mine off Dimbulah–Mount Mulligan Road, Kingsborough, Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to the 1930s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. His ...

, off Dimbulah-Mount Mulligan Road () *

Kingsborough Battery Kingsborough Battery is a heritage-listed mining building off the former East Street (now Thornborough-Kingsborough Road), Kingsborough, Thornborough, Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to 1990s. It was added to the Q ...

, off Kingsborough-Thornborough Road (former East Street, ) *

Tyrconnel Mine and Battery Tyrconnel Mine and Battery is a heritage-listed gold mine between Kingsborough and Thornborough, Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1876 to 1980s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. ...

, Kingsborough-Thornborough Road ()

Education

There are no schools in Kingsborough. The nearest government primary school is Dimbulah State School in

Dimbulah Dimbulah is a town and locality in Far North Queensland, Australia, from Cairns by road, on the Atherton Tableland. It is within the local government area of Shire of Mareeba (between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Tablelands Region). In ...

to the south; the school also offers secondary schooling to Year 10. For secondary schooling to Year 12, the nearest government secondary school is Mareeba State High School in

Mareeba Mareeba is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Mareeba in Far North Queensland, Australia. Between 2008 and 2013, it was within the Tablelands Region. The town's name is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning ''meeting of the waters'' ...

to the south-east, but it is probably too distant for a daily commute, with

distance education Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. Traditionally, this usually in ...

and boarding school as other options.

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