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Kilcoy was the heartland of the Jinibara People and the name comes from a patch of lawyer cane (jini) on Mount Kilcoy; [8] 'bara' means' people' or 'folk'; thus Jinibara are the 'People of the Lawyer cane'. Kilcoy was known as Bumgur, meaning the 'blue cod'. [9] The Kilcoy region is a rich Aboriginal cultural landscape.
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.
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.
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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 ...
Kilcoy Homestead was established in Winya in the 1850s. Settlement in the area had begun as early as 1841. [5]Winya State School opened in 1918 and closed in 1960. [6] The school was on a 5-acre (2.0 ha) site on the north-east corner of the D'Aguilar Highway and Sandy Creek Road (), now in neighbouring Sandy
On the Jimna Range, in the northern part of the Jimna State Forest, the Single Men's Barracks and cookhouse site is approximately 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north from the turn-off to the Kilcoy-Murgon Road and approximately 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) east of the Jimna Fire Tower (which is also heritage-listed).
The bridge was washed away on 9 January 2011 () during the catastrophic 2010–2011 floods. [10] A flying-fox was built across Sandy Creek to provide supplies to residents stranded due to bridge damage. [11] It has been rebuilt since then and was re-opened on 6 April 2012 (). [12]