Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Though Stanthorpe was occupied by pastoralists in the early 1840s and farm selectors in the 1860s, it was the mining started by the Pioneer Tin Mining Company in 1872 that put the place on the map.
The building of the railway line through Stanthorpe provided miners with substitute employment during 1881-83, but it was orcharding that provided a sustained economy for the town.
A Catholic priest Jerome Devadi and Robert Hoggan of Lyra, south of Stanthorpe, experimented with fruit varieties and encouraged orcharding. Summer vegetable growing (when it was too hot at lower levels) was also profitable. Pome fruits were extensively grown, but so were stone fruits, grapes and tobacco.
Discharged servicemen were also settled on orchard blocks west of Stanthorpe, and villages taking their names from battlefields of the Western Front, such as Pozieres, Passchendale and Bapaume, were created.
A branch line passing through them was opened in