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Hughenden, a rural town, is situated on the Flinders River 320 km south-west of Townsville. In 1861-62 two search parties for the Burke and Wills expedition, the Landsborough and Frederick Waler expeditions, reported favourably on the pastoral prospects around the Flinders River and the Jardine Valley.
Several pastoralists set out for the district. The first of them, Ernest Henry, took up five pastoral runs, one of them named Hughenden after his grandfather’s property in Buckinghamshire, England. In 1877 a township was surveyed and named after Henry’s pastoral station.
Somewhat in advance of the railway reaching the district, Hughenden was a prosperous pastoral area. By 1882 Hughenden had a court house, two hotels, stores, a hospital, a post office, a school (1880) and a Jockey Club. It was the administrative centre of the Hughenden local government division, separated from the Doonmunya division in 1882.
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