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Kingsborough, Queensland
Kingsborough is a small historic mining town in the locality of Thornborough in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. It was part of the Hodgkinson Minerals Area. 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, off Dimbulah-Mount Mulligan Road () * Kingsborough Battery, off Kingsborough-Thornborough Road (former East Street, ) * Tyrconnel Mine and Battery, Kingsborough-Thornborough Road () Education There are no schools in Kingsborough. The nearest government primary school is Dimbulah State School in Dimbulah to the south; the school also offers secondary schooling to Year 10. For secondary schooling to Year 12, the nearest government secondary sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEST
Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00). Time is regulated by the individual state governments, some of which observe daylight saving time (DST). Australia's external territories observe different time zones. Standard time was introduced in the 1890s when all of the Australian colonies adopted it. Before the switch to standard time zones, each local city or town was free to determine its local time, called local mean time. Now, Western Australia uses Western Standard Time; South Australia and the Northern Territory use Central Standard Time; while New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Jervis Bay Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory use Eastern Standard Time. Daylight saving time (+1 hour) is used in jurisdictions in the south and south-east: South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Family History Society
The Queensland Family History Society (QFHS) is an incorporated association formed in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. History The society was established in 1979 as a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-political organisation. They aim to promote the study of family history local history, genealogy, and heraldry, and encourage the collection and preservation of records relating to the history of 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 , established_ ... families. At the end of 2022, the society relocated from 58 Bellevue Avenue, Gaythorne () to its new QFHS Family History Research Centre at 46 Delaware Street, Chermside (). References External links * Non-profit organisations based in Queensland Historical societies of Australia Libraries in Brisbane Fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingsborough, Queensland
Kingsborough is a small historic mining town in the locality of Thornborough in the Shire of Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. It was part of the Hodgkinson Minerals Area. 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, off Dimbulah-Mount Mulligan Road () * Kingsborough Battery, off Kingsborough-Thornborough Road (former East Street, ) * Tyrconnel Mine and Battery, Kingsborough-Thornborough Road () Education There are no schools in Kingsborough. The nearest government primary school is Dimbulah State School in Dimbulah to the south; the school also offers secondary schooling to Year 10. For secondary schooling to Year 12, the nearest government secondary sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Distance Education In Queensland
School of the Air is a generic term for correspondence schools catering for the primary and early secondary education of children in remote and outback Australia where some or all classes were historically conducted by radio, although this is now replaced by telephone and internet technology. In these areas, the school-age population is too small for a conventional school to be viable. History The invention of the pedal radio by Alfred Traeger around 1929, and particularly the involvement of educator Adelaide Miethke in formulating and developing the idea of using the existing Royal Flying Doctor Service of radio communications, were pivotal in the establishment of the School of the Air. The first School of the Air lessons were officially sent from the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Alice Springs on 8 June 1951. The service celebrated its 50th jubilee on 9 May 2001, ahead of the real jubilee on 8 June; and its 70th year on 8 June 2021. Each state of Australia that utilis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mareeba State High School
Mareeba State High School is a school in Mareeba, Queensland, Australia. It currently has 730 students across the six grades and was established in 1960. Currently Scott Whybird is the principal. Mareeba State High School consists of four different sports houses, these consist of McKinlay, Kennedy, Leichart and Gregory Notable alumni Sport *Ben Hampton Ben Hampton (born 29 February 1992) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a utility for the North Queensland Cowboys in the NRL. Hampton previously played for the Melbourne Storm and has played in a number of posi ... (rugby league) * Aron Baynes (basketball) References Public high schools in Queensland Schools in Far North Queensland Educational institutions established in 1960 1960 establishments in Australia {{Queensland-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimbulah, Queensland
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 the , the locality of Dimbulah had a population of 1,050 people. Geography Dimbulah is approximately 100 km south-west of Cairns. The town was established near the Walsh River as a watering point for trains servicing the Hodgkinson goldfields to the north-west along with the former mining town of Wolfram which is also located to the north-west of the locality. There are historical ruins of early mining there as well as a present-day open cut mine. The Tablelands railway line passes through the locality which is served by the following railway stations (from north to south): * Chircan railway station, now abandoned () * Dimbulah railway station () * Leafgold railway station, now abandoned () * Carbonate Creek railway station, no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. History The Tyrconnel Mine has been one of the richest producers on the Hodgkinson Goldfield. Discovered in 1876, it was originally taken up by Redmond and McVeigh on 20 April 1876. The mine's name comes from Tír Chonaill, often anglicised as Tyrconnell, an old Gaelic ''túath'' (or principality) in the west of Ulster in the north of Ireland. Modern-day County Donegal is largely coextensive with the former principality of Tír Chonaill. The first battery erected at the mine was Warde and Company's in November 1876, evidently financed by A. Forsythe in Brisbane, from whom this expensive ten head stamp battery took its name. This battery began crushing in February 1877 and the local proprietors, John Warde and Thomas E. White, renamed it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History The Kingsborough Battery is located around west of the town of Dimbulah within the former Kingsborough township in an area once known as the Hodgkinson goldfield. It was reconstructed from salvaged parts in the 1990s for processing minerals, although reprocessing at the site did not eventuate. The plant is composed of a five-head stamper, concrete foundations, boiler, earth ramp, corrugated iron shed and brick chimney. The Hodgkinson Goldfield was proclaimed on 15 June 1876, after the first discoveries of gold on the Hodgkinson River by James Venture Mulligan in February that year. Although the Hodgkinson was geologically similar to the great alluvial gold field to the north, the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. History The Hodgkinson Goldfield was proclaimed on 15 June 1876. Although the Hodgkinson was geologically similar to the great alluvial gold field to the north, the Palmer, it was predominantly a reefing field with its major mines in the vicinity of the now abandoned townships of Kingsborough, Thornborough and Northcote. It was a neglected field through lack of capital, and although there was an optimistic outlook until the first decade of the twentieth century, it was clear by 1908 that its small yield no longer justified separate goldfield administration and accordingly, in 1909 it was incorporated into the Chillagoe Gold and Mineral field. There was an initial rush of over 2,000 men and up to 1877 it was estimated that over of gold had b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heritage-listed
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many instances the pages linked below have as their primary focus the registered assets rather than the registers themselves. Where a particular article or set of articles on a foreign-language Wikipedia provides fuller coverage, a link is provided. International *World Heritage Sites (see Lists of World Heritage Sites) – UNESCO, advised by the International Council on Monuments and Sites * Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO) * Memory of the World Programme (UNESCO) * Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) – Food and Agriculture Organization * UNESCO Biosphere Reserve * European Heritage Label (EHL) are European sites which are considered milestones in the creation of Europe. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 discovered gold in the Hodgkinson River area in 1876. Mines were established and many towns developed: * Beaconsfield () * Glen Mowbray * Kingsborough * Merton * Northcote * Tinaroo * Great Western * Hodgkinson * Woodville * Wellesley * Union Town * New Northcote * Mount Mulligan * Montmunro * MacLeodsville * Littleton * Kingston * Stewartown * Thornborough * Tyrconnel * Watsonsville (not to be confused with Watsonville near Herberton) Many miners relocated from the Palmer River goldfields to the Hodgkinson field. As the Hodgkinson field was too far from the port at Cooktown, a new port was established at Cairns. However, it was a very steep trip up through the Barron Gorge to reach Cairns and so explorer Christy Palmerston succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the , the locality of Dimbulah had a population of 1,050 people. Geography Dimbulah is approximately 100 km south-west of Cairns. The town was established near the Walsh River as a watering point for trains servicing the Hodgkinson goldfields to the north-west along with the former mining town of Wolfram which is also located to the north-west of the locality. There are historical ruins of early mining there as well as a present-day open cut mine. The Tablelands railway line passes through the locality which is served by the following railway stations (from north to south): * Chircan railway station, now abandoned () * Dimbulah railway station () * Leafgold railway station, now abandoned () * Carbonate Creek railway station, no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
