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Coolangatta Heritage Walk Coolangatta Heritage Walk Discover the history and heritage of Coolangatta. Coolangatta beach and Point Danger, 1891 Image courtesy of John Oxley Library. Image courtesy of City of Gold Marine Parade, 1935 Coast Local Studies Library. Marine Parade, Coolangatta, 1950 Image courtesy of City of Gold Image courtesy of City of Gold View of Coolangatta, 1970 Coast Local Studies Library. Coast Local Studies Library. Contents Quintessential holiday resort Coolangatta Heritage Walk full loop map Shipwrecks and borders - Named after a ‘perfect wreck’ Dividing the towns Saving lives in Coolangatta since 1909 The iconic structures that represent the history of Surf Life Saving in Coolangatta - Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Surf Life Saving Club - Kirra Surf Life Saving Club - The Kirra Shelter Shed Honouring those who served and remembering the fallen - The Great War - World War 2 Creating a destination - A place to stay, a place to play The making of a community - Historic places of worship - A school brought on by the flu! - The CWA still stands - Historic places for recreation - A watering hole by any other name… Aerial view over point danger and Coolangatta, 2003 Image courtesy of City of Gold Coast Local Studies Library. Quintessential holiday resort The town of Coolangatta dates back to 1883 when the first land surveys of town allotments took place. It is one of the earliest settlements on the Gold Coast and a place whose history, topography and beach culture set it apart from other places on the Coast. Named after the brigantine the Coolangatta which was wrecked off the beach at Kirra, it became the twin town to Tweed Heads across the border in 1883. Initially, development in Coolangatta was slow. The opening of the railway from Brisbane to Coolangatta in 1903, however, brought with it crowds of people eager to visit the wide, safe beaches on the back of a growing interest in surf bathing. Coolangatta officially became the place to holiday with camping grounds and legendary guest houses like Greenmount, the Beach House and Stella Maris providing not only accommodation but organised social events as well. The formation of the Coolangatta Town Council in 1914 allowed for a local government that was more focussed on the interests of the border town and this saw a recognition of the burgeoning tourist market and the creation of policies to capitalise on this. The arrival of Spanish Influenza in 1919 saw the closing of the Queensland/New South Wales border. This prevented people freely crossing from one state to the other. As the bulk of local services and facilities were in Tweed Heads, this was the catalyst for the rapid development of services and facilities in Coolangatta. Hotels, shops, cafes, dance halls and theatres developed along Griffith Street and Marine Parade to cater for a population that could not cross the border and, in the early part of the twentieth century, could swell to around 30,000 during holiday periods. During the Second World War, Coolangatta became a leave area for American service personnel. 1883 plan of the Town of Coolangatta. The influence of the Americans on Coolangatta was overwhelming. The US Army commandeered Image courtesy of City of Gold Coast Local Studies Library. land and buildings where they established leave camps and brought with them new and exciting cultural practices. American men bathed ‘topless’, hot dogs and french fries were introduced and dancing the jitterbug to a big band saw the local community experience new freedoms. Today, Coolangatta is the quintessential holiday resort town with a fascinating mix of heritage buildings, landscapes and modern high rise all shaped in part by the arrival of rail, the outbreak of influenza and the impact of American culture. 8 9 APEX PARK (SNAPPER ROCKS) Coolangatta Heritage Walk Full Loop 8 PAT FAGAN PARK PETRIE ST F 9 START 7 E HERE 1 MARINE PDE HILL ST D EDEN AVE 3 4 QUEEN ROUGHTON 5 B ELIZABETH 6 MUSGRAVE ST PARK PARK 2 MARINE PDE MARINE PDE 14 A 13 N C COYNE ST 12 10 G Gold Coast MUSGRAVE ST H HAIG ST Local Heritage LORD ST CHALK ST WARNER ST DOUGLAS ST Register places O LANHAM ST WINSTON ST CHURCHILL ST Places of interest M L 1. Site of the wreck of GORDON LA SKELTON COOLANGATTA RD K SCOTTI ST the Coolangatta CORNER A. Kirra Beach Hotel (formerly 2. Kirra Beach Pavilion TWEED ST Lennons Kirra Hotel) 3. Kirra Shelter Shed 11 B. Rotary Memorial Clock KIRRA 4. Coolangatta ANZAC Memorial J C. Ocean View Motel TOURIST 5. Wreck of the MILES ST PARK APPEL ST D. Greenmount Beach Resort OCEAN ST Coolangatta Memorial RUTLEDGE ST E. US Navy Leave Area Camp 6. Tweed Heads & Coolangatta KORINA AVE No.4 (picnic shelter) SIMPSON ST MCLEAN ST Surf Life Saving Club GARRICK ST F. St George’s Rest Home STAPYLTON ST 7. Coolangatta Norfolk pines G. Qld/NSW Border Marker 8. Remains of Jack Evans H. Country Women’s Porpoise Pool Association building COOLANGATTA REED 9. Captain Cook Memorial I. Coolangatta Bowls Club and Lighthouse J. Goodwin Park War 10. Francis Edward Roberts Memorial and Gardens Commemorative Plaque K. Coolangatta Croquet Club 11. St Augustine’s Church DUTTON ST L. St Peter’s Church 12. Jazzland Dance Hall (former) BALLOW DIXON ST M. Methodist Church Hall 13. Powell Brothers N. The Sands Hotel (formerly Commemorative Trees Kirrabelle Hotel) 14. Coolangatta State & O. Railway cutting – Chalk St Special School (former) 10 11 Shipwrecks and borders Named after a ‘perfect wreck’ In 1884 when the area was formally surveyed for town allotments, it was the convention that the town surveyor, in this case Henry Schneider, supplied the town name. In light The 88 tonne topsail schooner Coolangatta was built in a shipyard on the Shoalhaven River in 1843 by of the nearby wreck, he thought that Coolangatta would be a fitting name for the creek John Blundell for landowner Alexander Berry and named after his country estate. The original spelling and the new township. And so the town of Coolangatta was officially named. of the schooner’s name was Coolongatta though this changed over time to become Coolangatta. In March 1974, the wreck rose from the ocean bed and floated to shore following a cyclone. In July 1846, the Coolangatta left Brisbane to load 70,000 super feet of cedar at Tweed for southern It was broken in two – the large timber framework and the copper sheeted bow. Fragments ports. Captain Andrew Steele was the master of the ship and along with the crew, there were two were collected by the Shire Council at this time. Nearby the wreck site is a Memorial to the passengers on board; prisoners George Craig and William George Lewis, en-route to Sydney Coolangatta. There is also a fragment of the wreck on display in Queen Elizabeth Park. 5 gaol. One month later, in August 1846, the Coolangatta would be wrecked on Kirra beach. 1 The Coolangatta wreck is listed on the Australian National Shipwreck Database (ID The Moreton Bay Courier reported the tragedy in an article in August 29th 1846: 2347) and is protected under the Commonwealth Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976. “Loss of the schooner Coolongatta. It is with regret that we have to report the loss of this schooner on Wednesday the 18th instant at Point Danger, near the mouth of the Tweed River. The Coolangatta left this port on the 6th ultimo to load cedar in the tweed but in consequence of the small depth of water at the bar she could not enter the river and was necessitated to anchor on the north side of point danger, for the purpose of rafting the timber from the shore. On the evening of Tuesday week the wind blew strong from the north east and subsequently veered round to the eastward with increasing force until Wednesday morning when the schooner parted with both anchors and was driven ashore high and dry. The captain was on shore rafting timber at the time of the gale commence and we believe was unable to reach the ship in consequence of the boat having stove a few days previous. The crew saved themselves by swimming through the surf at the imminent risk of their lives. There were two prisoners on board, one of them, Craig, had been sentenced by the Brisbane bench to an iron gang and the other named Lewis had been committed for a breach of the Hired Servants Act. The former had his irons knocked off and was thus enabled to swim for his life. The captain crew and prisoners reached the pilot station at Amity on Tuesday evening last having walked from Point Danger along the beach. On Thursday evening Captain Steele and the crew went aboard the Tamar and proceeded to Sydney. The two prisoners were brought to Brisbane yesterday in the pilots boat and immediately delivered themselves up to the chief constable. The schooner has only her lower masts standing and is expected shortly to become a perfect wreck as there is a good deal of sand in her already. She had a nearly full cargo of cedar on board at the time the disaster occurred. The natives behaved very kindly to the shipwrecked men and provided them with fish every evening during their stay at Point Danger.” Wreckage of a wooden vessel believed to be that of the Coolangatta near the mouth of Coolangatta Creek, c1970s . Image courtesy of City of Gold Coast Local Studies Library. 12 13 Dividing the towns In 1862, plans were made by the Colonial Roberts and Rowland did not always survey fence was to keep out the cattle tick which was In 1999, the Gold Coast City and Tweed Secretarys of Queensland and NSW to conduct a the same line and there are deviations infesting Queensland cattle herds.
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