McDowall Street, Roma

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Roma is a town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland. The town was incorporated in 1867 and is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen (née di Roma), the wife of Sir George Bowen, the Governor of Australia at the time. It is the centre of a rich pastoral and wheat-growing district.

In 1863 Samuel Symons Bassett brought Queensland’s vine cutting to Roma and established the Romaville Winery and a century later Roma was the site of Australia’s first oil and gas discoveries. Captain Starlight, a cattle rustler, was tried and acquitted in the Roma Courthouse in February 1873. No successful conviction for cattle rustling has been made in Roma.

Description source:
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