Brisbane and Suburbs showing Mount Coot-tha Park, 1895

Mount Coot-tha, QLD
Australia
27° 29' 6.5832" S, 152° 57' 33.0876" E
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1 January 1895
4 May 2011
4 May 2011

Location

Mount Coot-tha, QLD
Australia
27° 29' 6.5832" S, 152° 57' 33.0876" E
See map: Google Maps
4 May 2011
Brisbane
Department of Lands

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Six chains to an inch
Looking at Mount Coot-tha

Brisbane and Suburbs showing Mount Coot-tha Park, 1895. This map, sheet seven, formed part of a series of Brisbane sheet maps drawn by government lithographer A.R. McKellar and published by the Surveyor-General’s Office, Brisbane 1895.  Comprised of 13 sheets, ‘McKellar’s Official Map of Brisbane and Suburbs’ was printed at the scale of six chains to an inch and contained minimal topographic information on Mount Coot-tha Park. Shown mainly as blank space, Mount Coot-tha Park and Toowong Cemetery contrast with the intricate detail on roads, suburbs and train lines. The outline of East Ithaca Creek and a track leading up it from the Ben Nevis estate provide the only indication of undulating relief. This dearth of topographic information was rectified in a later edition of McKellar’s maps. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

The Graves at Mill Point

Alf Watt is in his grave

These eighty years.

From his bones a bloodwood grows

With long leaves like tears.

 

His girl grew weary long ago;

She’s

Location

Mill Point, QLD
Australia
26° 3' 45.198" S, 151° 6' 29.4336" E
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1 January 1956
2 December 2010
2 December 2010
2 December 2010
The Bulletin
Berajondo and Mill Point: remembering place and landscape
Mill Point, QLD
Australia
26° 3' 45.198" S, 151° 6' 29.4336" E
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Australian poet Judith Wright visited the Mill Point cemetery and wrote a poem about life as she imagined it at the settlement during the late 1800s. The poem was written about the life of a man from the settlement known as Alfred Watt. In fact, Alfred was one of the first infants to be buried at the cemetery in 1874 at the tender age of four months and 20 days.

Berajondo and Mill Point: remembering place and landscape

‘Places’ are central to the ways in which people construct their understandings of the world.

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Thursday Island cemetery

Thursday Island cemetery showing Japanese graves. Collection of Regina Ganter

Collection of Regina Ganter

Byrnestown commune plan, 1890s

Byrnestown, QLD
Australia
25° 31' 26.5404" S, 151° 45' 44.7768" E
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25 August 2010
25 August 2010

Location

Byrnestown, QLD
Australia
25° 31' 26.5404" S, 151° 45' 44.7768" E
See map: Google Maps
25 August 2010
Collection of William Metcalf
Utopian communities

This map detail shows the communards’ huts along Wetheron Creek, as well as their burial ground and Provisional School. The sites of their community hall and second school have been added. Byrnestown Cemetery is still in use. Information from Queensland Department of Natural Resources, adapted by Tony Armstrong. Collection of William Metcalf

Chinese shrine, Cooktown Cemetery, 1972

Chinese shrine, Cooktown Cemetery, slide by Ruth Read, 1972. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

The New Cemetery, Ingham, c1970

Italian mausoleums at the New Cemetery, Ingham, c1970. Postcard, Murray Views Collection, Centre for the Government of Queensland

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