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Thomas Wentworth Wills and Cullin-la-ringo Station

Thomas Wentworth Wills narrowly escaped death on 17 October 1861 when his father and 18 others were killed at Cullin-la-ringo Station on Garden Creek, near Springsure.

Native Police Barracks and Reserve, Mary River, 1860

Mary River, QLD

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1 January 1860

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Mary River, QLD

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Queensland State Archives. Image by Jonathan Richards

Native Police Barracks and Reserve, Mary River, 1860. (SUR/A1/1860/725) Queensland State Archives. Image by Jonathan Richards

Native Police paddock, near Murrays Lagoon, Rockhampton

Murrays Lagoon Rockhampton, QLD

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Murrays Lagoon Rockhampton, QLD

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29 September 2010

Queensland State Archives. Image by Jonathan Richards

Map tracing showing Native Police paddock, near Murrays Lagoon, Rockhampton. (EXE/E5/17) Queensland State Archives. Image by Jonathan Richards

Native Police Barracks, near Bowen, 1863

Bowen, QLD

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1 January 1863

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Location

Bowen, QLD

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29 September 2010

Queensland State Archives. Image by Jonathan Richards

Map tracing showing Reserve for Native Police Barracks, near Bowen applied for by Lieut Marbow, 1863. (COL/A46/1863/2655) Queensland State Archives. Image by Jonathan Richards

Native Police Camp, Rockhampton, 1861

Rockhampton, QLD

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1 January 1861

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Location

Rockhampton, QLD

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29 September 2010

Queensland State Archives. Image by Jonathan Richards

Mud map of showing Native Police camp and W.H. Wiseman’s allotment, Yeppen Yeppen Lagoon, Rockhampton, 1861. (COL/A24/62/30) Queensland State Archives. Image by Jonathan Richards

Native Police reserve, near Laura, 1884

Laura, QLD

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1 January 1884

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Location

Laura, QLD

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29 September 2010

Queensland State Archives. Image by Jonathan Richards

Mud map of Native Police reserve, near Laura, 1884. (A41598) Queensland State Archives. Image by Jonathan Richards. Map shows natural features to be used as fences.

Civil government boundaries

By the 1850s Queensland’s greatest value to colonists was the pastoral potential of its land, all of which had been claimed by the British Crown.

Strips of winter crop and fallow make a striking contrast in this aerial picture taken over the Darling Downs, cover, Queensland agricultural journal, volume 95, number 4, April 1969.

Map of the southern portion of the colony of Queensland showing the surveyed runs, 1872, Sheet 1

Moreton QLD

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Darling Downs QLD

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Wide Bay/Burnett QLD

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1 January 1872

Locations

Moreton QLD

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Darling Downs QLD

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Wide Bay/Burnett QLD

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Brisbane

Surveyor General’s Office

12 miles to an inch

Sheet 1: Map of the southern portion of the colony of Queensland showing the surveyed runs. Detail of Moreton, Darling Downs, Wide Bay, and Burnett Districts. Printed at the Government Engraving & Lithographic Office Brisbane. Drawn on stone by H.W.Fox, Surveyor General’s Office Brisbane, 1872. The map key indicates ten year leases (green), resumed halves of runs (brown), surveyed land (purple), boundaries of runs in unsettled districts (green lines), and tin discoveries (blue). Collection of the Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying, Queensland

From runs to closer settlement

From the 1820s, scarcity of good land led pastoralists to establish runs on the Darling Downs and east of Moreton Bay.