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A postal receiving office was established in 1889 .On 1 December 1892, the Hopetoun Post Office was opened at Kilcoy in rented premises in Royston Street. It was named after Louis Hope (the uncle of the first Governor General of Australia, Lord Hopetoun , who was a visitor to Kilcoy Station). [ 27 ]
Following the successful centenary publications of the Kilcoy State School and St. Mary's Anglican Church by volunteers in the 1990s, the Kilcoy District Historical Society have scanned several thousand images from private collections and recorded oral stories on film, retelling the personal lives of many of the district's pioneer families.
Somerset was created in 2008 from a merger of the shires of Esk and Kilcoy, and is known as the Brisbane Valley, owing to the Brisbane River which courses through the region. [3] However, significant parts of the region lie outside the hydrological Brisbane Valley.
The Shire of Kilcoy was a local government area in South East Queensland, Australia, about 95 kilometres (59 mi) northwest of Brisbane along the D'Aguilar Highway, not far from the Sunshine Coast. The shire covered an area of 1,445.2 square kilometres (558.0 sq mi), and existed from 1912 until its merger with the Shire of Esk to form the ...
In 1958 the Many Peaks Post Office building was relocated to Ububo to become the QCWA building, officially opened in 1959. [168] Upper Lockyer/Withcott Upper Lockyer: Lockyer Valley: 2020 (active) [25] Upper Stone Upper Stone: Hinchinbrook: 2020 (active) [25] Urandangie Urandangie: Boulia: 1924 (founded) [169] A hall was paid off by 1927. [56 ...
The first practical use of electricity was for lighting in the Government Printing Office in George Street in April 1883. [2] In 1886, arc lights were in use at the Roma Street Railway Yards and in the same year, an underground cable connected the Parliament House from the Printing Office, the first of any Parliament House in Australia. [2]
The Mackenzie baronetcy, of Kilcoy in the County of Ross, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 15 March 1836 for Colin Mackenzie. He was a descendant of Alexander Mackenzie, son of Sir Colin "Cam" Mackenzie. [1] The 2nd Baronet spent the years 1840 to 1846 in Australia.
Sandy Creek is located northeast of Kilcoy in South East Queensland. [3]Many parts of Sandy Creek are elevated along the southern Conondale Range and some of the range is protected within Bellthorpe National Park.