Brisbane and Suburbs showing Mount Coot-tha Park, 1905

Mount Coot-tha, QLD
Australia
27° 29' 6.5832" S, 152° 57' 33.0876" E
1 January 1905
4 May 2011
4 May 2011

Location

Mount Coot-tha, QLD
Australia
27° 29' 6.5832" S, 152° 57' 33.0876" E
Brisbane
Department of Lands

Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland 2011

Eight chains to an inch

Brisbane and Suburbs showing Mount Coot-tha Park, 1905. This map, sheet seven, formed part of a series of Brisbane sheet maps originally drawn by government lithographer A.R. McKellar and published by the Surveyor-General’s Office, Brisbane 1895. Comprised of 13 sheets, the 1895 edition was printed with the scale of six chains to an inch and contained minimal topographic information on Mount Coot-tha Park. Despite the larger scale of eight chains to an inch, the 1905 edition of McKellar’s maps provided significant detail. The topographic relief in this map gathers towards Mount Coot-tha (in the bottom left) and Taylors Range. One Tree Hill, that has the trigonometric station and the lookout-pavilion, are measured at 746 feet. On the base of the mountain a walking track and mine shaft are marked. Mount Constitution has a measured elevation of 844 feet. A track leads to the summit after crossing below ‘Ithaca Falls’. In 1905, the price of this map was six shillings and two pence. The entire set comprised 12 sheets and cost 25 shillings. The Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, DERM, Brisbane

Indooroopilly and St Lucia estate, 1895

St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
1 January 1895
29 April 2011
29 April 2011

Location

St Lucia, QLD
Australia
27° 30' 7.362" S, 153° 0' 23.5656" E
Brisbane
Survey Office

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Six chains to an inch

Indooroopilly and St Lucia estate, 1895.  This map, sheet 11 of ‘McKellar’s Official Map of Brisbane and Suburbs’, depicted the St Lucia estate and undeveloped land where the University of Queensland would be later built. Brisbane city council resumed 976 land parcels for the project. The cottages of the 284 people that were living at St Lucia were also sold off to raise money. Where the carefully sculpted UQ lakes now lie, the left bank of Carmody Creek was lined with land parcels. Later converted into sports fields, the vacant land on the other side was used for the farm school for young men during the Depression. Street names such as Ethel, May and Alice disappeared from the map as the streetscape was replaced with sweeping thoroughfares which curved around new buildings, accentuating the University’s prominence in the newly created landscape. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Woodford Folk Festival, 2010

Woodford, QLD
Australia
26° 57' 14.094" S, 152° 46' 39.3816" E
1 January 2010
15 April 2011
15 April 2011

Location

Woodford, QLD
Australia
26° 57' 14.094" S, 152° 46' 39.3816" E
The Queensland Folk Federation

The Queensland Folk Federation

Woodford Folk Festival, 2010. This poster advertising the 2009-10 Woodford Folk Festival shows a fairyland of fun to be experienced by festival patrons. Notably, compared to posters from previous years, by 2009 the festival had become so popular that it required little explanation of the events taking place at the festival. Collection of the State Library of Queensland

Woodford Folk Festival, 2004

Woodford, QLD
Australia
26° 57' 14.094" S, 152° 46' 39.3816" E
1 January 2004
15 April 2011
15 April 2011

Location

Woodford, QLD
Australia
26° 57' 14.094" S, 152° 46' 39.3816" E
The Queensland Folk Federation

The Queensland Folk Federation

Woodford Folk Festival: celebrating 10 years at Woodford, 2004. Through the banner advertising the Woodford Folk Festival for 2003-2004 a cartoon map of the festival is laid out to show an exciting time to be had. At the festival there were international and national guests, as well as a musical ‘oasis’ of live performers. Collection of the State Library of Queensland

Land proposed to be granted to the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, c1890

Herston, QLD
Australia
27° 26' 52.3968" S, 153° 1' 45.0624" E
1 January 1890
15 April 2011
15 April 2011

Location

Herston, QLD
Australia
27° 26' 52.3968" S, 153° 1' 45.0624" E
Agriculture and Stock Department

Queensland State Archives

4 chains to an 1 inch

Land proposed to be granted to the Queensland Acclimatisation Society, c1890. This map shows the Acclimatisation Society’s land adjacent to the land used for the Exhibition Park. Gradually the land was conceded to the demands of the National Association to be used for the Brisbane Exhibition and the society moved its grounds to a site at Lawnton in the early twentieth century. Correspondence relating to exhibition grounds, Bowen Park, Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Dagworth bore, 1896

QLD
Australia
1 January 1896
13 April 2011
13 April 2011

Location

QLD
Australia
Water Supply Department

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Dagworth bore, 1896. This profile of Dagworth bore recorded the geological layers beneath the surface. The bore was drilled to a depth of 3335 feet and the water came out at 196° fahrenheit. The source of this water was a thick layer of sandstone wedged between two layers of shale. When Banjo Paterson composed ‘Song of the Artesian Water’ in 1896, the bore produced 775,000 gallons per day. This was a substantial reduction from the previous year when Paterson was holidaying at Dagworth station. Queensland votes and proceedings, Vol 4, 1896

Perambulator survey of runs in West Maranoa, 1863

Charleville, QLD
Australia
26° 24' 4.842" S, 146° 14' 22.7508" E
1 January 1863
11 April 2011
11 April 2011

Location

Charleville, QLD
Australia
26° 24' 4.842" S, 146° 14' 22.7508" E
Department of Lands

Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland

Perambulator survey of runs in West Maranoa, 1863. In the unsettled districts of western Queensland, pastoral boundaries often amounted to little more than a surveyor’s blazed tree. Early plans produced for the Lands Department recorded their location as well as other landscape features. Conducted in 1863, the first survey of the upper Warrego River recorded the location of two Landsborough camp sites. Made on the 9 May 1862, ‘camp 66’ is depicted on the east bank of the Warrego, not far from a ‘well watered creek’ described by Edmund Kennedy in 1847. Within a newly surveyed 32,000 acre block, Landsborough’s ‘camp 67’ is depicted near the junction of the Warrego and Ward Rivers. The Lands Department continued using this map to later record town reserves and land resumptions. Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, DERM, Brisbane

Bulcock estate land sale Caloundra, 1917

Caloundra, QLD
Australia
26° 48' 15.3252" S, 153° 7' 28.1532" E
8 April 2011
8 April 2011

Location

Caloundra, QLD
Australia
26° 48' 15.3252" S, 153° 7' 28.1532" E

Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland, 2011

Bulcock estate land sale at Caloundra, 1917. The advertising plan boasts 404 ‘superb sea view sites’ located at a tramway terminus and at a convenient distance from Brisbane. Overlooking the Bribie Passage, the Bulcock estate was the ‘sportman’s paradise for fishing, surfing and boating’. Vance and Nettie Palmer lived at Caloundra from 1925-29. The development from fishing villages to small allotments in the Sunshine Coast region was a feature of Vance Palmer’s well known novel The Passage (1930). Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, DERM, Brisbane

Tinnenburra resumptions, 1906-14

Tinnenburra, QLD
Australia
28° 44' 14.928" S, 145° 36' 14.6808" E
1 April 2011
1 April 2011

Location

Tinnenburra, QLD
Australia
28° 44' 14.928" S, 145° 36' 14.6808" E
Lands Department

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Tinnenburra resumptions, 1906-14. In 1906, 515.5 square miles was resumed from Tinnenburra. This was followed by another resumption of approximately 396 square miles in 1914. This map includes details on pastoral infrastructure and vegetation. AML&F purchased the remaining lease in 1922. Collection of the Queensland State Archives, Item 27786, File pastoral run

Paddock map of Tinnenburra, 1924

Tinnenburra, QLD
Australia
28° 44' 14.928" S, 145° 36' 14.6808" E
28 January 1924
1 April 2011
1 April 2011

Location

Tinnenburra, QLD
Australia
28° 44' 14.928" S, 145° 36' 14.6808" E
Sydney
New South Wales Department of Lands

Collection of the Noel Butlin Archives, Canberra

Paddock map of Tinnenburra, 1924. Drafted after AML&F purchased the lease in 1922, this map depicts existing pastoral infrastructure. Details were later added to the map in red pen, probably by the manager. This included two new bores and the flow rate of Tyson’s ninth bore which had diminished significantly since it was first drilled. Bore No17 is described as a ‘practical failure’ supplying water for 10,000 sheep. The Tinnenburra lease expired in 1944, however, due to war time commitments the Lands Department delayed its decision about whether another 40 years would be granted. This allowed AML&F to continue running Tinnenburra during its most profitable phase, during a postwar boom in wool prices. Until the lease expired, AML&F had spent £60,556 on improvements and upkeep. Despite this investment, in 1949 the Lands Department initiated plans to sub-divide the property. Breaking Tinnenburra into numerous blocks constituted a major turning point in the economic and social history of the landscape. However, the cultural ramifications were arguably most acute in relation to Aboriginal people who, until that point, played an active role in the landscape. Collection of the Noel Butlin Archives, Canberra, 132/17

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