The Town of Ithaca is a former

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, Australia, located in inner western

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History

The

Ithaca Division The Ithaca Division is a former local government area of Queensland, Australia, located in north-western Brisbane. History The Ithaca Division was one of the original divisions created on 11 November 1879 under the ''Divisional Boards Act of 18 ...

was first proclaimed in 1879, and originally covered an area that stretched from

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, Kelvin Grove and Milton in the east, through to The Gap and beyond the

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in the west. In 1887 the division was split into the

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and the

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, with the remainder in the south east becoming the

Shire of Ithaca The Town of Ithaca is a former local government areas of Queensland, local government area of Queensland, Australia, located in inner western Brisbane. History The Ithaca Division was first proclaimed in 1879, and originally covered an area t ...

. Ithaca was proclaimed a town in 1903. On 25 February 1922, Sir

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, the

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unveiled the Ithaca War Memorial to commemorate local people who had died in World War I. Ithaca was amalgamated into the newly created

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in 1925.

Geography

The Town of Ithaca comprised most of the inner western suburbs of Brisbane from Kelvin Grove Road to the foot of

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. Its boundary followed Enoggera Creek to the north, Coopers Camp, Simpsons and Boundary Roads in Bardon to the west, and Baroona and Milton Roads to the south. Hale Street and an area just before the junction of Waterworks/Musgrave Road and Kelvin Grove Road formed the south-eastern extremity of the town. This eastern boundary was shared with the Brisbane Municipal Council; the Brisbane side of Hale Street was paved and channelled while the Ithaca side was not.

Ithaca Town Council Chambers

The

Ithaca Town Council Chambers The Ithaca Town Council Chambers is a heritage-listed former town hall of the former local government area of the Town of Ithaca, and now a community centre in Paddington, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Located at 99 Enoggera Terrace ...

were built in 1910 at 99 Enoggera Terrace, in the then suburb of

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 ...

(now in the suburb of Red Hill). With the amalgamation into

in 1925, the building became the property of 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. The Ithaca Town Council Chambers was listed on the

Queensland Heritage Register The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. It is maintained by the Queensland Heritage Council. As ...

in 2000. The Ithaca Embankments, a council urban beautification scheme, were listed on the Queensland Heritage Register in 1993.

Presidents and mayors

* 1888–1889: George Edward Cooper * 1890: W. I. Boys * 1901: Arthur George Clarence Hawthorn * 1906: George Phillip Reading * 1907: George Thomas Sweetman * 1908: Robert McCook * 1909: George Hall * 1910: James Bray Lugg * 1911: Silvanus White * 1912: Frederick Thomas Morris * 1913: Arthur George Clarence Hawthorn * 1914: Robert Speedy * 1915: William Robert Warmington * 1916: James Bray Lugg * 1917: John Tait * 1918: Arthur Kaye * 1919: John Fairfax Hayward * 1920: Frederick Edward Hampson * 1921: Leslie Howard Tooth * 1925: William Robert Warmington

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