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Raglan Homestead
Raglan Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead (buildings), homestead at Raglan Station Road, Raglan, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to 1913. It is also known as Raglan Station. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History Raglan Station, located just north of Larcom (earlier Larcombe) Vale Creek in the Port Curtis hinterland, was established in 1857 by James Landsborough. The present main residence at Raglan Homestead was erected in 1913, but there are other earlier structures within the complex, including a slab hut that may date to the establishment of the station, and a timber cottage. The area was explored by Archer brothers, Charles and William Archer in 1853 and in 1856 by William Landsborough (who in 1861-1862 was to lead one of the official relief expeditions in search of the missing explorers Burke and Wills expedition, Burke and Wills). It was incorporated within the Port Curtis Pastoral District, proclaimed in January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raglan, Queensland
Raglan is a rural town and locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Raglan had a population of 146 people. Geography Raglan is located on Raglan Creek, part of the Casuarina Creek drainage system that empties into Keppel Bay. The locality contains the following mountains: * King Solomon Spur () * Marble Mountain () * Mount Alma () * Mount Bennett () * Mount Bomboolba () * Mount Despair () * Mount Erebus () * Mount Holly () * Mount Wendy () These ranges are a significant source of marble and calcite, and the South Ulam mine is located there. The Bruce Highway enters the locality from the east (Ambrose), passes through the town along Raglan Street, and exits to the north-west (Marmor). The North Coast railway line runs roughly parallel and north of the highway, passes through the locality with the following stations (from east to west): * Epala railway station () *Amos railway station (), now abandoned *Raglan railway st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parson's Inn
Parson's Inn is a heritage-listed former hotel at Raglan Station Road, Raglan, Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to 1950s. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 31 July 2006. History The former Parson's Inn buildings are timber vernacular structures located approximately south of Raglan on the old coach road, now bypassed by the Bruce Highway. The proprietor of this wayside inn from 1885 until the early 1900s was Edwin Parson and the property has remained in the possession of members of his family. The area in which the inn is situated was surveyed for pastoral settlement in 1855 and most of County of Clinton was soon taken up as runs producing wool. This included Raglan which was selected by William Landsborough and by 1857 was occupied by James and John Landsborough. By 1865 cattle were established in the district and soon replaced sheep. By 1867 there were over 180 runs in the district and a goldfield was proclaimed at Raglan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uniting Church In Australia
The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was founded on 22 June 1977, when most congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, about two-thirds of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and almost all the churches of the Congregational Union of Australia united under the Basis of Union. According to the church, it had 243,000 members in 2018. In the , about 870,200 Australians identified with the church; in the , the figure was 1,065,796. The UCA is Australia's third-largest Christian denomination, behind the Catholic and the Anglican Churches. There are around 2,000 UCA congregations, and 2001 National Church Life Survey (NCLS) research indicated that average weekly attendance was about 10 per cent of census figures."Census vs Attendance (2001)" ''National Church Life Survey'' The UCA is Australia's largest n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presbyterian Church Of New South Wales
The Presbyterian Church of Australia (PCA) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Australia. (The larger Uniting Church in Australia incorporated about two-thirds of the PCA in 1977.) History Beginnings When captain James Cook landed in Australia in 1776 he was sure to have had some Presbyterians in his crew. John Hunter the captain of HMS ''Sirius'' was a former Church of Scotland minister. Later Presbyterian Christianity came to Australia with the arrival of members from a number of Presbyterian denominations in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century. The Presbyterian missionaries played an important role to spread the faith in Australia. Since then Presbyterianism grew to the fourth largest Christian faith in the country. The Presbyterian Church of Australia was formed when Presbyterian churches from various Australian states federated in 1901. The churches that formed the Presbyterian Church of Australia were the Presbyterian Churches of New South Wales, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Homestead At Raglan, 1917
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Lindeman's
Lindeman's is an Australian winery, owned by Treasury Wine Estates. It was founded in 1843 by Henry Lindeman who planted its first vines in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales. This original vineyard no longer exists, and the winery now has vineyards in South Australia ( Barossa Valley and Coonawarra), in Padthaway and at Karadoc in Victoria, near Red Cliffs. It is considered a mass-producer of reasonably priced, good quality wine. In 1993, its Bin 65 chardonnay was Australia's top-selling white-wine export. Five consecutive vintages have been named "best buys" by '' The Wine Spectator'', a consumer magazine, and Robert M. Parker, Jr. has called it "one of the three or four finest chardonnay values in the world" in his newsletter ''The Wine Advocate ''The Wine Advocate'', fully known as ''Robert Parker's Wine Advocate'' and informally abbreviated ''TWA'' or ''WA ''or more recently as ''RP'', is a bimonthly wine publication based in the United States featuring th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langmorn Homestead
Langmorn Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Langmorn Road, Raglan, Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1873 to 1926. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992. History Langmorn Homestead is the residence and associated outbuildings of a pastoral property located in the Port Curtis Hinterland and was established in 1869 by Thomas Creed and his family. The region in which Langmorn is located was first explored by Charles and William Archer in 1853. Two years later, William Landsborough also explored the region, taking up the run of Raglan in the same year. It was managed by Landsborough’s sons, James and John, with James occupying the property with his family. By 1862, he had acquired sole ownership of Raglan which then comprised 200 square miles on which sheep were run. By 1865, Raglan had been sold and passed wholly into the ownership of the Bank of New South Wales by 1868. In this year the Crown Land Alienati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bank Of New South Wales
The Bank of New South Wales (BNSW), also known commonly as The Wales, was the first bank in Australia, being established in Sydney in 1817 and situated on Broadway. During the 19th century, the bank opened branches throughout Australia and New Zealand, expanding into Oceania in the 20th century. It merged with many other financial institutions, finally merging with the Commercial Bank of Australia in 1982 and being renamed to the Westpac Banking Corporation on 4 May that year under the ''Bank of New South Wales (Change of Name) Act 1982''. History Established in 1817 in Macquarie Place, Sydney premises leased from Mary Reibey, the Bank of New South Wales (BNSW) was the first bank in Australia. It was established under the economic regime of Governor Lachlan Macquarie (responsible for transitioning the penal settlement of Sydney into a capitalist economy). At the time, the colony of Sydney had not been supplied with currency, instead barter and promissory notes was the payme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keppel Bay
Keppel Bay is a bay in Central Queensland, Australia at the mouth of the Fitzroy River on the coast of the Coral Sea. Extent Keppel Bay extends from Station Point on Curtis Island () in the Gladstone Region to Zilzie Point at Zilzie () in the Shire of Livingstone. Islands The named islands in Keppel Bay from north to south are: * Round Rock off Zilzie () * Flat Rock off Coorooman () * Girt Island off Keppel Sands / Joskleigh () *Shelly Knob off Curtis Island () *Satellite Island in the Fitzroy River mouth off Port Alma () *Mackenzie Island in the Fitzroy River mouth off Thompson Point () *Egg Island in the Fitzroy River mouth off Thompson Point () *Mud Island in the Fitzroy River mouth off Thompson Point () *Balaclava Island in the Fitzroy River mouth off The Narrows () Despite the name, the islands in Keppel Bay Islands National Park are not within Keppel Bay but are to the north and east of the bay. History Keppel Bay was named by Captain Cook when he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Joint Stock Bank
The Australian Joint Stock Bank was a bank in Australia. It operated from 1852 to 1910, after which it became the Australian Bank of Commerce and then was taken over by the Bank of New South Wales in 1931. History The Australian Joint Stock Bank was created in 1852 by an Act of the New South Wales Parliament. It issued its first banknotes in 1862. In 1910, the Australian Bank of Commerce was registered in New South Wales under the Joint Stock Companies Act to take over the Australian Joint Stock Bank. In 1917 it acquired the City Bank of Sydney. In 1931, the Bank of New South Wales (now Westpac) acquired the Australian Bank of Commerce. Heritage buildings Some of the former bank's buildings are now heritage-listed, including: * Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, Maryborough * Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, Townsville * Gympie Stock Exchange (originally built for the Australian Joint Stock Bank) * Commonwealth Bank Building, Mackay (originally built for the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dee Range
Dee may refer to: People Surname * Dee, an alternate spelling of the Welsh surname Day * Dee, a romanization of several Chinese surnames, including: ** Those listed at Di (surname) ** Some Hokkien pronunciations of the surname Li () * Di Renjie (630–700), Duke Wenhui of Liang, a Tang dynasty official * Arthur Dee (1579–1651), a physician and alchemist * Billy Dee, retired African American adult film actor * Bob Dee (1933–1979), American football defensive end * Daisy Dee (born 1970), Dutch singer, actress and TV host * Dave Dee (1943–2009), English singer-songwriter, musician, A&R manager, fundraiser and businessman * Ed Dee (born 1940), American author * Frances Dee (1909–2004), American actress * Gerry Dee (born 1968), Canadian comedian * Jack Dee (born 1961), British comedian * Jeff Dee (born 1961), American artist and game designer * Joey Dee (born 1940), American singer, of Joey Dee and the Starliters * John Dee (1527 – 1608 or 1609), English ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bracewell, Queensland
Bracewell is a rural locality in the Gladstone Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Bracewell had a population of 196 people. Geography Zamia Knob is a mountain in the south of the locality (), rising to above sea level. The predominant land use is grazing on native vegetation. History The Bracewell Public Hall (also known as the Bracewell School of Arts) was opened in January 1914 on Mr Cuthbert's land beside the main road in the town. The building was by . It was at 1237 Mount Larcom Bracewell Road (). Bracewell State School opened on 5 July 1915 and closed on 30 June 2000. The school was at 1444 Mount Larcom Bracewell Road (). Cedar Vale State School opened on 12 April 1926 and closed on 15 December 1978. It was on a bend in the Mount Larcom Bracewell Road (). In the 2011 census, the population of Bracewell and its neighbour East End was 462 people. In the , Bracewell had a population of 196 people. Education There are no schools in Bracewell. The nearest gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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