Mount Mort is a rural
locality
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in the
City of Ipswich
The City of Ipswich is a local government area in Queensland, Australia, located within the southwest of the Brisbane metropolitan area, including the urban area surrounding the city of Ipswich and surrounding rural areas.
Geography
The Ci ...
,
Queensland
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, nickname = Sunshine State
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, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, establishe ...
, Australia.
In the , Mount Mort had a population of 91 people.
Geography
Western Creek, a tributary of the
Bremer River, and
Franklyn Vale Homestead are both found in Mount Mort.
History
In 1877, were resumed from the
Franklyn Vale pastoral run and offered for selection on 17 April 1877.
The locality was originally known as Gehrkevale after Carl Frederick Wilhelm Gehrke who purchased circa 1881 and subsequently purchased a further . However, during
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
due to
anti-German sentiment
Anti-German sentiment (also known as Anti-Germanism, Germanophobia or Teutophobia) is opposition to or fear of Germany, its inhabitants, its culture, or its language. Its opposite is Germanophilia.
Anti-German sentiment largely began wit ...
, the name was changed to Mount Mort, after the Mort family who settled there in 1849.
Gehrkevale Provisional School opened on 18 January 1904. On 1 January 1909 it became Gehrkevale State School. In May 1917 it was renamed Mount Mort State School. It closed on 18 September 1959.
Heritage listings
Mount Mort has a number of
heritage-listed sites, including:
* Franklin Vale Road:
Franklyn Vale Homestead
See also
*
List of Australian place names changed from German names
References
External links
{{Ipswich City
City of Ipswich
Localities in Queensland