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Aramac is a small town and locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland. In the 1850s, pastoralist and future Premier of Queensland Robert Ramsey Mackenzie travelled through the area, which was on the traditional lands of the Iningai. He blazed a tree with the inscription ‘R R Mac’, which was later corrupted into the name of the town.

In 1867 an employee of Aramac Station, John William Kingston, opened a bark-hut store at an outlying point on the Aramac Creek. Enlarged two years later to include a hotel (Kingston’s Bazaar), Kingston’s settlement was declared a town site in 1869 and surveyed as a town in 1875. It was the region’s first town, and the centre of the first local-government division.

Recollections of an 1878 visit to Aramac were published in the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin in 1933, describing the township as consisting of “neat weatherboard structures, painted, and comprising

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Marburg, a rural town, is within Ipswich, just off the Warrego Highway en route to Toowoomba. It was once covered by the Rosewood Scrub which was cleared and the area settled predominantly by German farmers in the 1870s.

Marburg, north of Frankfurt in Germany, is the burial place of the Prussian King Frederick the Great (1712-86), making it an attractive choice of name for the German settlers.

The Marburg area was intensively settled and in 1891, when a courthouse was opened, a census population of 200 was recorded.

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Roma Courthouse is a heritage-listed courthouse at 141 McDowall Street, Roma, Queensland. Constructed in 1901, it is a rendered masonry building, which is still in use today. Predominately influenced by the Federation free style, it is considered a stunning example of Federation colonial architecture at its best. It is also known as Roma Court House and Roma Police Buildings.

This building was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register because it reflects the development of Roma, a pastoral service town, and the establishment of government administration for the prosperous surrounding district, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The large masonry form of the Roma Courthouse is indicative of the relevant importance of Roma in relation to other towns in western Queensland.

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Georgetown began in 1869 as an alluvial gold mining centre, based on the Etheridge River. When the gold field was approved as a township it was named Georgetown in honour of the local gold commissioner, Howard St George. The alluvial gold attracted a rush of prospectors, estimated at up to 3000 at its peak.

In 1870 a telegraph repeating station for an overland line to the Gulf was built at Georgetown, and a post office and a courthouse opened in 1872. Buildings were primitive, and by 1880 the original wood and canvas buildings were wearing out. White-ant proof iron and hardwood structures replaced them. In 1882 Georgetown had ten hotels, ten billiards rooms and an enlarged courthouse to deal with participants in drunken brawls, assaults, indecent language and livestock theft.

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Herberton is an unusual town which is set on a ridge of the rolling hills of the Atherton Tablelands. Historically it was a tin town with both a mine and a smelter nearby. The explorer A. C. Gregory named the local river, the Herbert River, after Sir Robert Herbert, the first premier of Queensland.

The town came into existence in 1880 when a party of prospectors led by Willie Jack and John Newell discovered tin in the area. They named the settlement Herberton because it was at the headwaters of the Herbert River. In 1882 they established a store in Herberton under the banner of ‘General Merchants and Forwarding and Shipping Agents’ and over the next decade they became the most successful merchants in the area.

The discovery of tin at Herberton was largely responsible for the development of the other towns on the Atherton Tablelands.

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Tambo Court House is a timber building that was constructed in 1888 and was used for judicial purposes until 1983. This building is evidence of the importance of Tambo when it was the main communication point and administrative centre in western Queensland north of Charleville.

It is a good example of a small regional courthouse of its era, having a large courtroom with offices for magistrates and court officials to the rear in a T-plan that was a standard plan for rural courthouses from the mid-nineteenth century until World War II.

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The St Lawrence police station and courthouse, constructed in 1878, the second to be built on the site and the cell block, constructed by 1880, are situated in a prominent position overlooking the St Lawrence Creek, located on the site of a government reserve which has served the community as part of the justice system since 1863.

Few early timber police station and courthouse buildings survive and the St Lawrence police station and courthouse building is significant for its rarity as one of the earliest, intact, extant examples of this type of building. As a single-storey, timber government building, with drawings prepared by the Office of the Colonial Architect, it also has aesthetic significance due to the simplicity and symmetry of design of the building.

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Bowen Courthouse is a heritage-listed courthouse at 30 Williams Street (corner with Herbert Street), Bowen, Queensland. It was designed by George St Paul Connolly of the Colonial Architect’s Office and built in 1880 by Southall & Tracey. It was completed in 1881 in the Classic Revival style. It is a two-storey building and was constructed of rendered brick with a corrugated iron roof. It is still in use today and contains most of the original furniture and features.

The Bowen Courthouse is important in demonstrating the early prominence of Bowen, being considerably more grand than other early courts at Townsville and Charters Towers; both of which towns were to eclipse Bowen. As the first Supreme Court outside Brisbane, it also illustrates the way in which a legal system was established and government services provided in the developing north of the colony. The inclusion of a second

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The Old Ipswich Courthouse is a heritage-listed former courthouse located at 73-75 East Street, Ipswich, Queensland. It was designed by Charles Tiffin and built from 1859 to 1936. A single-storey sandstone and brick Romanesque building, the courthouse was the earliest major Queensland work of Tiffin, who was Clerk of Works for Moreton Bay, and became the first Queensland Colonial Architect.

It is a rare example of a government building constructed in Queensland prior to separation from New South Wales. At the time of separation, the debt on the building was inherited by the Queensland Government which led to an ongoing dispute with the New South Wales Government. The size and quality of the building demonstrate the importance of Ipswich as a major centre at this time. It still contains early bench and court fittings and is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of an early courthouse.

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Ingham Court House is a heritage-listed courthouse at 35-39 Palm Terrace, Ingham, Queensland. It was designed by John Hitch of the Department of Public Works (Queensland) and built in 1948. It replaced an earlier court house on part of the site which was retained for other purposes.

The earlier court house was constructed in 1915 and was a single-storeyed timber building. Following construction of the 1948 Court House, the 1915 building was taken over by the Police Department and altered.

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