Ithaca is a former suburb of

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, Australia. Since 1975, Ithaca has been designated a neighbourhood within the suburb of Red Hill in Brisbane.

Origin of the name

The name of the suburb is believed to have been bestowed by Sir George Ferguson Bowen,

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(1859–1867), after the

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Ithaca Ithaca most commonly refers to: *Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's ''Odyssey'' *Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca *Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College Ithaca, Ithaka ...

, the subject of a book he had authored.

Geography

Traditionally, Ithaca was bound by Jubilee Terrace to the west, Ithaca Creek to the north, the suburb of Red Hill to the east and the suburb of

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to the south. Therefore, despite the official designation as being part of Red Hill, the former suburb of Ithaca appears to span the present suburbs of Red Hill,

and Bardon.

History

Ithaca was once the centre of the former local government areas of Shire of Ithaca, later Town of Ithaca. The Ithaca Town Council Chambers were built in 1910 at 99 Enoggera Terrace (then in Ithaca, now in Red Hill). With the amalgamation of the Town of Ithaca into

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in 1925, the building became the property of by the

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. Since then it has been used as a council depot, library and as the Red Hill Kindergarten. It is currently used as a community hall, known as Ithaca Hall. On 25 February 1922, Sir

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, the

unveiled the Ithaca War Memorial to commemorate local people who had died in

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. The Ithaca Town Council Chambers were listed on the

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in 2000.

Ithaca today

The Ithaca name still persists in a number of local places: * the Ithaca Hall (the former Ithaca Town Hall) * the Ithaca War Memorial on Ennogera Terrace, Paddington * the old Ithaca Fire Station at 140 Enoggera Terrace, Paddington * the Ithaca Swimming Pool at 131 Caxton Street, Paddington * the

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in Lugg Street, Bardon

References

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