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Kilcoy District Historical Society was formed in 1998 as the Kilcoy Shire Historical Society in recognition of the need to actively collect and record the social history of the
Kilcoy Kilcoy is a rural town and locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Kilcoy had a population of 1,996 people. Geography The township is on the D'Aguilar Highway, north west of the state capital, Brisban ...
district in Queensland, Australia businesses and local identities. Following the successful centenary publications of the Kilcoy State School and St. Mary's Anglican Church by volunteers in the 1990s, the Kilcoy District Historical Society have scanned several thousand images from private collections and recorded oral stories on film, retelling the personal lives of many of the district's pioneer families. This volunteer work has formed the basis of several published works on the early pioneers of Kilcoy.


Museum

In 2007, a former church at Hazeldean was relocated to 40 Hope Street, in Yowie Park, Kilcoy () where it is now a museum operated by the Kilcoy District Historical Society, known as the Hall of History.


See also

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History of Queensland The history of Queensland encompasses both a long Indigenous Australian, Aboriginal Australian presence as well as the more recent periods of European colonization, colonisation and as a States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. ...
* History of Somerset Region


References


Further reading

* {{Citation, title=Death pudding : the Kilcoy massacre --, author=Lergessner, James , publisher=Woorim, Queensland, year=2007 , pages=368 , isbn=978-0-646-47751-0


External links


Kilcoy Historical Society
* History at work: Kilcoy District Historical Society ideorecording Creator: Scheu, A. 2010. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland Somerset Region History of Queensland Historical societies of Queensland