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The Turrbal people occupied the region north of Brisbane River, including the area covered by Zillmere. [citation needed]With European settlement, the area came to be known as Zillman's Waterholes, named after Johann Leopold Zillmann (1813–1892), a Lutheran missionary who served at the mission station nearby at Nundah.
Newstead is 3.6 kilometres (2.2 mi) north-east of Brisbane central business district, bounded by Breakfast Creek to the north and the Brisbane River to the east. [4]The northern and western parts of the suburb, centred on Breakfast Creek Road, is predominantly commercial, with the remainder, particularly near the river, becoming increasingly residential.
Transport for Brisbane operate six bus routes via Zillmere station: 330: Bracken Ridge to Cultural Centre busway station [5] P331: Bracken Ridge to George Street, Brisbane [6] P332: Zillmere to University of Queensland [7] N339: Fortitude Valley to Bracken Ridge – Saturdays and Sundays only [8] 326: Bracken Ridge/Sandgate to Toombul [9]
A portion of Sinnamon Park was formerly part of the Wolston Estate, consisting of 54 farms on an area of 3,000 acres, offered for auction at Centennial Hall, Brisbane, on 16 October 1901. [8] Wolston Estate was the property of M. B. Goggs, whose father obtained the land forty years previously in the 1860s and after whom Goggs Road is named. [ 9 ]
The motto of the City of Brisbane is Meliora sequimur, Latin for We aim for better things. The council's corporate slogan is Dedicated to a better Brisbane. The city's colours are blue and gold. Its corporate logo was introduced in 1982 in preparation for the Commonwealth Games hosted in Brisbane that year. It features a stylised version of ...
Riverhills is bounded to the west by the Brisbane River, to the south by Wolston Creek, and to the south-east by Wacol Station Road. [4] The land use is predominantly residential. [4] The terrain is hilly rising from below 10 metres (33 ft) above sea level beside the river to over 40 metres (130 ft) on the northern bank of Wolston Creek. [4]
Aspley is located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north and about a half-hour drive north of the Brisbane central business district.It is positioned on flat ground south of Cabbage Tree Creek, centred on Little Cabbage Tree Creek and on the surrounding hills to the east and south.
Real estate map of The Graceville Estate, circa 1888. Graceville is located 7.8 kilometres (4.8 mi) south-west of the Brisbane CBD, and is bordered by the Brisbane River to the North-East and West, Oxley Creek to the East, Chelmer to the North and Sherwood to the South.