Herbert Street with Royal and Commercial Hotels, Allora

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Allora is a town a locality in south-eastern Queensland on the Darling Downs. The region surrounding this small farming community was first explored by Europeans in the 1840s; the town was surveyed in 1859. Its name is believed to derive from an Aboriginal word “gnarrallah”, meaning waterhole or swampy place.

Following European settlement, the history of the area is entwined with two famous pastoral homesteads in the vicinity of Allora: Glengallan and Talgai. Both properties ran sheep. From the 1870s, red cedar, pine and beech logged from the Goomburra valley were milled at Allora.

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