Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Coochin Coochin homestead is one of the Scenic Rim’s oldest homes, and for the past 110 years it has been maintained by the Bell Family.
The Coochin Coochin story has its beginnings in 1842 when the 120,000 acre property was first established. This sprawling run stretched from the outskirts of the town of Boonah, south to the New South Wales border, and west to the Mt Alford range.
David Hunter applied for the first grazing lease in September 1842 and named the area Dulhunty Plains, apparently after a ‘very well respected Sydney family’.
By 1870 Thomas Alford was the owner-manager of the property which was now known as Coochin Coochin, meaning ‘Many black swans’, because there were many swans living on the large lagoon.
He moved the Coochin homestead to its existing site in the centre of the property, high on the hill to avoid floods, and from where