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Old Town Loop: a Walking Trail Through Yungaburra's Past Enjoy your walk through history through walk your Enjoy e Storyteller. e % Picoult, Jodi $ them. between spaces the ll # who people the about s " It www.yungaburra.com Visit the Yungaburra website: Yungaburra the Visit wars. and places and dates about t " isn History ! Tel: (07) 40952416; Email: [email protected] Email: 40952416; (07) Tel: Yungaburra Visitor Information Centre. Information Visitor Yungaburra the researcher’s knowledge up to the time of publication. of time the to up knowledge researcher’s the The information contained herein has been compiled to the best of of best the to compiled been has herein contained information The Tony Williams (Map) and Ross Robinson (Graphic Design). (Graphic Robinson Ross and (Map) Williams Tony each month. month. each (Illustrations), Averil Douglas (Research and written composition), composition), written and (Research Douglas Averil (Illustrations), the markets are conducted on the 4th Saturday of of Saturday 4th the on conducted are markets the Centre which acknowledges the contributions of Joan Cairns Cairns Joan of contributions the acknowledges which Centre This brochure is a project of the Yungaburra Visitor Information Information Visitor Yungaburra the of project a is brochure This is now Maud Kehoe Park and Bruce Jones Park where where Park Jones Bruce and Park Kehoe Maud now is e station and yards were located on what what on located were yards and station e ! 1964. July and weather. Yungaburra railway station closed 1st 1st closed station railway Yungaburra weather. and culties of terrain terrain of culties $ di the overcome to struggled horses of the National Trust of Australia of Trust National the of wet season when trails turned to quagmires and pack pack and quagmires to turned trails when season wet listed on the Queensland Register Register Queensland the on listed reliable means of transport, particularly during the the during particularly transport, of means reliable proved a faster and more more and faster a proved " Horse Iron % e ! region. Within the village are 19 sites sites 19 are village the Within e railway was pivotal in the development of the the of development the in pivotal was railway e ! many of the planned festivities were spoiled. spoiled. were festivities planned the of many Yungaburra’s past Yungaburra’s visitors from Atherton, however the day was wet and and wet was day the however Atherton, from visitors ree special trains carried carried trains special ree ! 1910. March 31st on A walking trail through through trail walking A rst section of the Tolga-Johnstone Line Line Tolga-Johnstone the of section rst # the opened cially cially o $ Secretary) (Home Appel J.G. Hon. e ! 1910. Old Town Loop: Town Old Yungaburra railway station on Tuesday 15th March March 15th Tuesday on station railway Yungaburra rst train arrived at at arrived train rst # the and opened line e ! those farms were also subdivided into town blocks. town into subdivided also were farms those s property; sections of of sections property; s " Wood of part with along and s Farm before reaching Yungaburra Station Station Yungaburra reaching before Farm s " Roseblade e route of the railway line also traversed traversed also line railway the of route e ! Cedrella. amongst other things a grand home for himself called called himself for home grand a things other amongst who subdivided it into town blocks and built built and blocks town into it subdivided who of Portion 72 to Arthur Belson, a timber merchant, merchant, timber a Belson, Arthur to 72 Portion of near the station. Mr. Wedderburn sold the remainder remainder the sold Wedderburn Mr. station. the near advantageous for future development to be located located be to development future for advantageous located to the south of the existing village, it would be be would it village, existing the of south the to located that as the railway station and buildings were being being were buildings and station railway the as that With the line almost completed it became obvious obvious became it completed almost line the With through from Cairns to the Tablelands it was used A proposal was also made to continue the line by horse and mule teams and pedestrian tra$c. !e towards land being surveyed in the Johnstone River packers carried supplies up and minerals down. !e and Eacham districts. track was also known as %!e Cairns Road" and today !e word pocket added to place names in the Yungaburra (originally Allumbah Pocket), takes its part of the Gillies Highway is shadowed by the original name from the language of the Yidinji Aboriginal track which ascends out of the Mulgrave River Valley region came about because pockets or clearings in people. It is said to mean meeting place, a place of then along the Atherton Spur to Boar Pocket. the rainforest had been created by the #res of the enquiring or questioning. Prior to European settlement Indigenous people. !e resultant clearings produced the area around Yungaburra was inhabited by about 16 In 1886, the same year it was decided to build a railway lush grass which provided feed for animals traversing di&erent Indigenous groups who met to trade, camp line between the coast and the Tablelands, Edward the track as well as comfortable overnight resting and conduct ceremonies. !e traditional home country Baird Rankin surveyed land around Lake Eacham and places for travellers. Boar Pocket was near the top of of the Dulguburra Yidinji Aboriginal clan encompasses Allumbah Pocket for a Village Homestead Settlement the range, further west was Ball Pocket (later Kulara) land to the north-east of Yungaburra, i.e. Boar Pocket, Scheme. !e plan o&ered settlers 40-acre farm blocks and then Allumbah Pocket as it was called until Danbulla, Tinaroo and Kulara, while the traditional with a home site set apart in a village. !e scheme failed 1890. Between 1890 and 1909 it was known simply lands of the Ngadjonji people is in the Millaa Millaa- as settlers needed to live on the land they farmed. By as Allumbah. Malanda region. 1890 settlers were moving into the Allumbah Pocket area under the Queensland government"s Closer Europeans 'ocked to the region following discoveries Settlement Act. At that time the only access to the of gold and tin. !e timber-getters followed, drawn by village was via a bush track which turned south-east o& the seemingly endless bounty of beautiful and durable Robson"s Track. Today, the cemetery occupies the site timbers. Many thousands of men were directly or of the original village. indirectly involved in the getting, hauling and exporting of Tableland timbers. At one stage there were no fewer In 1890 John Ignatius Stewart became the #rst permanent than 200 bullock and horse teams. Descendants of early settler, then on April 10, 1891 John Musto Roseblade timber-getters and settlers still live in the area. !e most selected 4 portions totalling 153-acres. A requirement sought a(er timber was Red Cedar (Toona ciliata), but of taking up land was that selectors must clear and the forests also held Walnut, Queensland Maple, Silky farm their land or forfeit it. !e volcanic landscape and rainforest presented signi#cant challenges. Settlers Oak, Silkwood, Black Bean, Silver Ash, and Kauri Pine In 1909 the Government reclaimed land for a to name a few. !e importance of timber to Yungaburra became involved in dairying and cropping, although at times the native animals seemed to harvest more of railway branch line from Tolga and by July that is re'ected in its street names - Cedar, Maple, Pine, Fig, year a 6-acre section of Portions 72 & 73 of George Ash, Bunya, Beech, Elm, Oak and Penda. their crops than they did. Selectors continued to take up land at Allumbah Pocket and by 1907 the Walker Bros Wedderburn"s farm was designated as the site for the James Robson is credited with blazing a track over the had opened a store and butchery, Estate H.S. Williams railway station. !e Wedderburn Farm had been Mulgrave Range from Cairns. Before then the way Ltd had built and were operating a store, butchery and purchased in 1900 from George O"Donnell who had to the mineral #elds was from Port Douglas through a hotel and another store was built by Edward Lisha. In selected it in 1899. !e Railway Department decided Atherton to Herberton. Cobb & Co coaches plied this 1909 the Allumbah School opened. Allumbah was too similar to Aloomba, a town route then known as the Mulligan Highway. Robson"s near Gordonvale, so with a gazetted name change Track was a much shorter route but initially was no !e railway line reached Atherton in 1903 and in 1905 on 5 Nov 1909 Allumbah became Yungaburra. more than a bridle path. Before the railway pushed a meeting of settlers at Allumbah Pocket requested a branch line be constructed from Tolga to the village. (cont!d p.4 over page) Enjoy your walk through history through walk your Enjoy e Storyteller. e % Picoult, Jodi $ them. between spaces the ll # who people the about s " It www.yungaburra.com Visit the Yungaburra website: Yungaburra the Visit wars. and places and dates about t " isn History ! Tel: (07) 40952416; Email: [email protected] Email: 40952416; (07) Tel: Yungaburra Visitor Information Centre. Information Visitor Yungaburra the researcher’s knowledge up to the time of publication. of time the to up knowledge researcher’s the The information contained herein has been compiled to the best of of best the to compiled been has herein contained information The Tony Williams (Map) and Ross Robinson (Graphic Design). (Graphic Robinson Ross and (Map) Williams Tony each month.
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