Cullin-la-ringo run, selection 68, 1877

Gindie, QLD
Australia
23° 43' 22.3572" S, 148° 8' 36.132" E
23 June 1877
29 April 2011
29 April 2011

Location

Gindie, QLD
Australia
23° 43' 22.3572" S, 148° 8' 36.132" E

Queensland State Archives

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Cullin-la-ringo run, selection 68, 1877. This map of the final selection of Cullin-la-ringo station, number 68, was ‘Applied for by the trustees of the late H.S. Wills’. The run was surveyed on 23 June 1877 after instructions from the trustees of Wills. Selection 67 joins this part of the run in the north-west corner. Marked with patches of trees and in open downs country, the south-east corner of this map shows a hut marked as ‘Broughton’s or Murdering Camp’, with an annotation that reads, ‘Murder of Wills and party of 19 souls by Blacks Oct 17th 1861’. Nearby, graves are marked on the map. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Cullin-la-ringo run, selection 67, 1877

Gindie, QLD
Australia
23° 43' 22.3572" S, 148° 8' 36.132" E
23 June 1877
29 April 2011
29 April 2011

Location

Gindie, QLD
Australia
23° 43' 22.3572" S, 148° 8' 36.132" E

Queensland State Archives

20 chains to an inch

Cullin-la-ringo run, selection 67, 1877. This was the third selection that was ‘Applied for by the Trustees of the late H.S. Wills in right of their run called Cullin-la-ringo’. Although the northern portion of this selection shows Duncan’s or Swallows Tail Creek which has ‘open forest’, descending into ‘open undulating downs with a few saplings and trees’, the south-western portion was deemed as ‘worthless perished country’. In selection 68 the location of the ‘Murder of Wills and party’ is marked. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Cullin-la-ringo run, selection 66, 1877

Gindie, QLD
Australia
23° 43' 22.3572" S, 148° 8' 36.132" E
23 June 1877
29 April 2011
29 April 2011

Location

Gindie, QLD
Australia
23° 43' 22.3572" S, 148° 8' 36.132" E

Queensland State Archives

20 chains to an inch

Cullin-la-ringo run, selection 66, 1877. The land in this part of the selection is made up of ‘open undulating downs’. The Clermont Road runs through the southern portion and joins selection 65 on the eastern boundary – the far side of the map shows a diagram of this connection along Six Mile Creek. In selection 68 the location of the ‘Murder of Wills and party’ is marked. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Cullin-la-ringo run, selection 65, 1877

Gindie, QLD
Australia
23° 43' 22.3572" S, 148° 8' 36.132" E
23 June 1877
29 April 2011
29 April 2011

Location

Gindie, QLD
Australia
23° 43' 22.3572" S, 148° 8' 36.132" E

Queensland State Archives

20 chains to an inch

Cullin-la-ringo run, selection 65, 1877. Sixteen years after the death of Horatio Spencer Wills the trustees of the family estate applied for control of the station. This transfer required that the trustees had the run mapped accurately which was completed on 23 June 1877. The map shows the ‘open downs’ which were the primary landscape features of this part of the run. On the eastern boundary on Stony Creek there are drafting yards, stables, the head station, woolshed and shearers hut. The road from Rockhampton to Clermont can be seen running through the station. This map was among four portions of Cullin-la-ringo which were surveyed in 1877, the final year that the leases for Cullin-la-ringo remained with the sons of Wills. In the accompanying map of selection 68 the location of the ‘Murder of Wills and party’ is marked. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Grain sorghum growing in central Queensland, Walkabout, June 1951

Emerald, QLD
Australia
23° 31' 33.6108" S, 148° 9' 44.046" E
1 June 1951
24 February 2011
24 February 2011

Location

Emerald, QLD
Australia
23° 31' 33.6108" S, 148° 9' 44.046" E
Melbourne
Walkabout

Copyright © Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

Grain sorghum growing in central Queensland, Walkabout, June 1951. The properties of the Queensland British Food Corporation are shaded and include Wolfgang, Retro, Peak Downs, Cullin-la-Ringo, Marmadilla, Orion Downs and Inderi together with the railway network. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland

The Wills Tragedy, 1861

The Wills Tragedy. The arrival of the neighboring squatters & men collecting & burying the dead, after the attack by the blacks on H.S. Wills Esq's Station, Leichhardt District, Queensland. October 19, 1861. Watercolour  by T.G. Moyle. Collection of the State Library of Queensland

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Cullin-la-ringo Station, QLD
Australia
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