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Innisfail State College is a government primary and secondary (Early Childhood-12) school for boys and girls at 45 Flying Fish Point Road (12] [13] In 2017, the school had an enrolment of 856 students with 85 teachers (81 full-time equivalent) and 57 non-teaching staff (43 full-time equivalent). [14]
The Innisfail branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the CWA Hall at 1 McGowan Drive. [83] Chinese Australians built the Innisfail Temple/Lit Sing Gung (列聖宮) in Owen Street, which is now open to other races and religions. [84] The Sikh community has built the Sikh Temple / Guru Nanak Sikh Education Centre in East ...
In 1863, George Elphinstone Dalrymple claimed pastoral land in an area of recently opened crown lands, The Valley of Lagoons. [2] A police camp was established at the southern extent of Dalrymple's land, the future location of the township, and in 1864 became the first inland town in Northern Australia to be surveyed.
Map of Dalymple Division and adjacent local government areas, March 1902. Dalrymple Division was created on 11 November 1879 as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the Divisional Boards Act 1879 with a population of 4494. [2] The name Dalrymple is believed to honour George Elphinstone Dalrymple, an early explorer of the region. [3]
George Augustus Frederick Elphinstone Dalrymple (6 May 1826 – 22 January 1876) [1] was a colonist, explorer, public servant and politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. He founded the towns of Bowen and Cardwell, and pioneered the opening up of the Herbert, Burdekin, Johnstone and Daintree River regions to British ...
Henderson Drive is a state-controlled regional road (number 628). [1] [8] It runs from Innisfail–Japoon Road in Wangan to the Palmerston Highway in Pin Gin Hill, a distance of 6.6 kilometres (4.1 mi). It does not intersect with any state-controlled road. [46]
A number of sugar mills operated in the Johnstone district: the Innisfail Estate Sugar Mill began crushing in 1881 but was closed by 18851; the Queensland Sugar Company's Innishowen Mill commenced on the Queensland Estate in 1883 and closed in 1891; Goondi Mill first crushed in 1885 and closed in 1986; the Mourilyan Mill opened in 1884; and the ...
East Innisfail is a suburban locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census , East Innisfail had a population of 1,757 people. [ 1 ]