Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Boulia is a tiny settlement on the edge of the desert. The name of the town means either ‘waterhole’ or ‘clear water’ in the language of the local Pitta Pitta Aborigines.
The first Europeans to pass through the area were the ill-fated Burke and Wills in 1861. A kind of town was first settled in 1876. It was at the western limit of pastoral land and was nothing more than a collection of tents.
By 1879 there was a store at a waterhole. This was the beginning of the town. The end of the 1880s saw the town as the administrative centre for the far northwest of Queensland with a courthouse, police barracks and post office.
Description source:
Aussie Towns
View the original image at Queensland State Archives:
Digital Image ID 20783