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Argyle Homestead is a heritage-listed farm at New England Highway, Geham, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1870. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. [1]
[9] [10] In June 1885, all of the allotments at the new township of King's Creek were sold but there was limited interest in the farm sites outside the town as the prices were thought to be too high. [11] The township failed to develop; that land is now used for farming. [2] In December 1906, a Methodist church was opened at Kings Creek. [12] [13]
The former Downs Co-operative Dairy Association Limited Factory, located on Brook Street, Toowoomba, is associated closely with the development of the Queensland dairy industry and with the emergence of the Darling Downs as a principal dairy producing region during the early to mid-twentieth century. The original butter factory, made of timber ...
The Lockyer Valley is an area of rich farmlands that lies to the west of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and east of Toowoomba. The Lockyer Valley is rated among the top ten most fertile farming areas in the world, [ 1 ] and the intensively cultivated area grows the most diverse range of commercial fruit and vegetables of any area in Australia.
Early goods were transported by cart from the farms in Ravensbourne to Hampton and then by train from Hampton to Toowoomba for sale. In the 1920s trucks replaced carts for haulage to Hampton or directly to Toowoomba. [23] Sometime after 1932 the Esk–Hampton Road became trafficable allowing access to the Brisbane Valley railway line.
Westbrook Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Coupers Road, Westbrook, Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1864 to 1867. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. [1]
Pages in category "Toowoomba Region" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 251 total. ... Condamine Farms, Queensland; Condamine Plains ...
The town lots were offered for sale in the new town of Aubigny in December 1885, but only two lots were sold at that time, one to the Lutheran church and one to the Catholic church. [10] St John's Lutheran Church opened in 1886. [11] On Sunday 22 September 1929, a new larger church was built with the 1886 church becoming the church hall. [12]