Kingsborough is a small historic mining town in the

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of Thornborough in the

Shire of Mareeba The Shire of Mareeba is a Local government in Australia, local government area at the base of Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, inland from Cairns, Queensland, Cairns. The shire, administered from the town of Mareeba, Queensland, Mare ...

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, 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 Mullig ...

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

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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 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 water ...

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

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and boarding school as other options.

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