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Wynnum State School, later Wynnum Central State School, was established in 1896. Major extensions to the building were completed in 1919 and 1953.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435713, Photographic material
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On the wall is a calendar from Simpson Halligan & Co, a Brisbane printing company which often did work for the Lands Department.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435714, Photographic material
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The Survey Office was responsible for the surveying, mapping and management of Crown lands.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435714, Photographic material
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Stirling Henry Limited was originally a Sydney importing warehouse. It branched out into textile manufacturing in the 1920s. A new factory was opened in Whinstanes in 1948.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435714, Photographic material
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Five new Housing Commission houses on Logan Road, Holland Park. As of July 2017, four of them are still there.
Queensland State Archives Item ID435717, Photographic material
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Looking west from near Smithfield Street towards Monkland Street.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436298, Photographic material
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Fruit was first planted at Stanthorpe in the 1860s. The subtropical highland climate was very suitable for growing cool climate fruits and vegetables.
Queensland State Archives Item ID436296, Photographic material
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View of Maryland Street with Post Office clock tower on the right.
Queensland State Archives, Digital Image ID 6802
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The Queenslander
13 March 1915
THE NASH MEMORIAL
The ceremony of unveiling the memorial recently erected in the Gympie Town Hall reserve to the memory of the late Mr. James Nash, who discovered the Gympie goldfield on October 16, 1867, was performed this afternoon by Alderman A. G. Ramsey in the presence of a large gathering of Gympie residents and representatives of the local and district councils. Those present included the mayor (Alderman P. H. Green) and the city aldermen, Councillors Betts (chairman of the Widgee Shire Council) and R. Dunmall (Widgee Shire), Councillor A. J. M. Chapman (Noosa Shire Council, Messrs. A. L. Petrie, R. Trout, G. H. Mackay, and H. F. Walker, M.L.A, J.
Stumm, M.H.R., Mesdames C and A. Nash, J.Moore (nee Nash), and Messrs. Mark and Bert Nash: also the members of the Nash Memorial Committee. The Mayor presided, and in a brief speech announced
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From the Queensland Heritage Register.
Gympie Town Hall was opened in 1890 on land reserved for this purpose in 1883. It was designed by Clark Brothers, which won competitions for proposed town halls for Brisbane and Gympie in 1884 and Warwick in 1885. Of the Clark Brothers’ prize-winning designs for Queensland town halls, only that for Gympie may have been realised, and its construction was supervised by H W Durietz in the late 1880s. It was extended in 1938-9 by Brisbane architect C H Griffin.
Gympie (initially Nashville) arose after the discovery of gold in the Mary River district in October 1867. The new goldfield established Queensland as a significant gold producer and contributed much needed finances to the young colony. Thousands of people arrived at the Gympie goldfield in the months after the discovery and a fledgling settlement emerged. In a year the alluvial gold had