Dreaming

Panoramic view, possibly taken from the water tower, of the Cootharaba Sawmill at Elanda Point, c1880s. Note the neat row of worker’s cottages disappearing into the distance at right.

Collection of the Queensland Women’s Historical Association

Berajondo, showing the Williams family outside the slab kitchen built by John Williams in the late 1920s close to the family homestead.

Collection of Michael Williams

Berajondo, 2008

Australia

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1 January 2008

2 December 2010

Location

Australia

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2 December 2010

Collection of Michael Williams, Sean Ulm, Susan O'Brien

Berajondo showing existing (black) and past (grey) structures and features in the immediate vicinity of the family homestead. Many of the named trees were planted to mark the births and 21st birthdays of children and grandchildren. The red line is a fire break constructed around the features held as most significant by the owners. The map shows a layering of histories over the century that the family has engaged with this landscape. Collection of Michael Williams, Sean Ulm, Susan O'Brien.

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

The Bulletin

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.

Preserving our Queensland Heritage, 1985

1 January 1985

25 November 2010

Brisbane

Queensland Government

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Preserving our Queensland Heritage, 1985. Pamphlet published by the premier's Department in 1985, with a forward by Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Military survey, Tamborine, 1954

Tamborine Mountain, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1954

25 November 2010

Location

Tamborine Mountain, QLD

Australia

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25 November 2010

Royal Australian Survey Corps

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

1:63,360

Military survey map of Tamborine published in 1954 and compiled by the Royal Australian Survey Corps from gound surveys and air photographs in April 1944 and August 1952. The topography and settlements around North Tamborine, Eagle Heights and Mount Tamborine are clearly shown, with the escarpment visible from Southport. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Map of Mount Tamborine, c1938

Mount Tamborine, QLD

Australia

27° 58' 20.6328" S, 153° 11' 51.2988" E

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25 November 2010

Location

Mount Tamborine, QLD

Australia

27° 58' 20.6328" S, 153° 11' 51.2988" E

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25 November 2010

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

AAA Map of Tamborine Mountain c1938. Map shows location of features and guest houses in the Tamborine area. Collection of the Queensland State Archives