Glengallan, Queensland
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Glengallan is a rural
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in the
Southern Downs Region The Southern Downs Region is a local government area (LGA) in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The region runs along the state's southern boundary with New South Wales and was created in 2008 from a merger of the Shire of War ...
,
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, Australia. In the , Glengallan had a population of 57 people.


Geography

Glengallan is part of the
Darling Downs The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia. The Downs are to the west of South East Queensland and are one of the major regions of Queensland. The name was generally ...
. The
New England Highway New England Highway is an long highway in Australia running from Yarraman, Queensland, Yarraman, north of Toowoomba, Queensland, at its northern end to Hexham, New South Wales, Hexham at Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle, New South Wales, ...
enters the locality from the north-west ( Mount Marshall). The
Cunningham Highway The Cunningham Highway is a National Highway (Australia), national highway located in South East Queensland, south-eastern Queensland, Australia. The highway links the Darling Downs region with the urbanised outskirts of Ipswich, Queensland, I ...
enters the locality from the south-east and merges with the New England Highway, and then together exits the locality to the south ( Willowvale and Sladevale). The land is mostly flat (approx above sea level except for Mount Marshall in the north-east of the locality () which rises to . The land use is predominantly crop growing with grazing on native vegetation on the sloes of Mount Marshall.


History

The name ''Glengallan'' derives from the name of the pastoral run, taken up by Colin and John Campbell in 1841. Glengallan Station School opened circa 1886 for the education for the children of the staff of Glengallan Station. In 1891, it became Glengallan Provisional School. On 1 January 1909, it became Glengallon State School. It closed in 1921. In late 1922 or early 1923, it was amalgamated with Wilsonville State School to become Mount Marshall State School, which closed in 1965. On Monday 14 September 1908, the foundation stone of St Andrew's Anglican Church was laid by Archdeacon Rivers. The church was dedicated on 23 November 1908 by
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. It closed in 1962. Glengallan Methodist church opened on Sunday 4 October 1908 with a celebratory tea meeting on Wednesday 7 October 1908. Glengallan Presbyterian Church was officially opened and dedicated on Sunday 19 September 1909 by Reverend R. Kerr. It was on a site donated by Walter Skerman opposite the provisional school.


Demographics

In the , Glengallan had a population of 54 people. In the , Glengallan had a population of 57 people.


Heritage listings

Glengallan has a number of
heritage-listed This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In ma ...
sites, including: *
Glengallan Homestead Glengallan Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead (buildings), homestead on the New England Highway, Glengallan, Queensland, Glengallan, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1864 to 1904. It is also known as Glengal ...
, New England Highway


Education

There are no schools in Glengallan. The nearest government primary schools are Allora State School in
Allora Allora is a rural town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Allora had a population of 1,205. Geography Allora is on the Darling Downs in south-easter ...
to the north-west and Freestone State School in Freestone to the south-east. The nearest government secondary schools are Allora State School (to Year 10) in Allora and
Warwick State High School Warwick State High School is a heritage-listed state high school at 15 Palmerin Street, Warwick, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Thomas Pye and Block A was built from 1914 to 1915. It is also known as Warwick Te ...
(to Year 12) in
Warwick Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon, Warwickshire, River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined wit ...
to the south.


References

{{Southern Downs Region Southern Downs Region Localities in Queensland