Post Office and McKinlay Shire Civic Centre, Julia Creek, c 1962

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Julia Creek was was named after the niece of Donald McIntyre, the first white settler in the area.

The Mackinlay Division was created on 9 December 1891 out of parts of Boulia and Cloncurry. It became the Shire of McKinlay on 31 March 1903. The new new Shire of McKinlay was formed from parts of the Shires of Cloncurry, McKinlay, Winton and Wyangarie in 2008.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436299, Photographic material

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