Gayndah - Dtatns - The North Burt

Contents:

• GAYNDAH, QLD
• SEVEN THGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT GAYNDAH, QUEENSLAND'S OLST TOWN
• GAYNDAH, QUEENSLAND: BT THGS TO DO AND ATTRACTNS
• GAYNDAH
• TOWN OF GAYNDAH
• SHIRE OF GAYNDAH
• COURT HOE, GAYNDAH
• THGS TO DO GAYNDAH, ATRALIA - GAYNDAH ATTRACTNSTHGS TO DO GAYNDAH
• ABOUT GAYNDAH, QLD
• THE 5 BEST THGS TO DO GAYNDAHTHGS TO DO GAYNDAH
• ARCHERS LOOKOUT (GAYNDAH) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
• TOWN OF GAYNDAH, GAYNDAH
• GAYNDAH ... QLD
• GAYNDAH FACTS FOR KIDS

GAYNDAH, QLD

Gayndah, a pleasant ral service centre loted on the Burt River, li at the heart of Queensland's cs area and proudly claims to be 'The Orange Capal of Queensland'. While many ways a typil Queensland ral town, Gayndah has a number of special attractns: has an excellent mm wh a number of historic ho; the Archer's Lookout offers a fe vantage pot over the town; Mellors Drapery Store has one of the few functng "flyg fox" left the untry; and, to plement the town's "orange" theme, the town clock has been signed the shape of a cs tree.

The Queensland Herage Register not that the buildg is "Suated Capper Street, the ma street of Gayndah, the Court Hoe is a sgle-storeyed timber buildg wh a hipped rgated-iron roof and two projectg gabl. "Gayndah Court Hoe is a typil example of the work of the Public Works Department and is a ntuatn of the tradn of timber urt ho Queensland untry towns, adaptg to civic functn vernacular elements and materials mon to domtic buildgs.

The buildg which was named the Gayndah and District Soldiers Memorial Hall and Council Chambers was officially opened on the 19th July 1935 by the Hon E Hanlon memoratn of the employment relief loan the Gayndah Town Council had received om the State Government orr to nstct the buildg. Loted Simon Street off Capper Street, the Gayndah Mm is an excellent ral mm wh exhibs cludg an 18th century grandfather clock, a Leyland tck which dat back to 1913, and the Ban Ban buggy which dat to 1896.

SEVEN THGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT GAYNDAH, QUEENSLAND'S OLST TOWN

Archer's Lookout (accsed by drivg up Peapple Street and followg the signs) is loted on the top of the De and Duchs Mounta where a panoramic view over the town and the surroundg untrysi offers an tertg perspective on Gayndah although the lie of the land means that the Burt River, so important to the town, n only be glimpsed. Loted 10 km north of Gayndah (take the Burt Highway north, turn to Iraway Road and follow the signs) is this most unual, upsi down railway bridge which was built 1902. The town of Gayndah is about four hours north-wt of Brisbane, Queensland's North Burt populatn of about 2, 000 people has barely fluctuated the past few s and is one of those plac where everyone knows area around the town is a te experience of ral Atralia and is only a uple of hours om regnal ci like Bundaberg and Hervey Bay.

(ABC Wi Bay: Js Lodge)Gayndah was the first town Queensland to be formally gazetted, Brisbane and Ipswich are olr, they are fed as ci, not town has prerved a lot of s history and has a number of herage-listed s cludg the town hall, built 1934, and s origal urt hoe which was built 1928. Produc a huge amount of Queensland's csGayndah is the self-proclaimed cs pal of Queensland, although this is disputed by the neighbourg town of Mundubbera, which also mak a claim for the tle. Mandars, maly Imperials and Murtts, are the ma cs u grown the regn wh smaller growg areas of orang, lemons, lim, lemonas and town is home to the Big Orange where you will also fd the town's mast, Gay Dan the Orange Man.

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(ABC Wi Bay)When drivg through Gayndah, people may notice that the street rners are marked a ltle differently than other towns and is thought to be the only town Queensland wh vertilly-orientated street lol uncil changed the signs about 20 years ago after havg a lot of trouble wh vandalism and people bendg the signs. Sightgs of a bear were reported many years after, wh some believg a pair of bears bred and their offsprg lived 18 years ago the Gayndah bear ma headl around the world when there was another alleged sightg of a bear-like creature and a $10, 000 reward was offered to seek out s n. You n buy lemonas here — the u not the drkOn roadsi u stands throughout Gayndah you n fd a u many people have not heard some people grew up wh lemona tre their backyards, many people have never tasted a lemona do not see them big supermarkets and growers say this is bee people are turned off as they look too much like a fact, they are a cross between a lemon and a mandar.

Has a 159-year-old murr mysteryOn the outskirts of Gayndah stands a stone monument embossed wh the name Anna Kathera Krieger, who was murred was 22 years old and her killer was never found.

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On the outskirts of the quiet Queensland town of Gayndah, about four hours north-wt of Brisbane, stands a stone monument embossed wh the name Anna Kathera Krieger.

"It's a sad story and 's one that's trigued always, " said Gayndah and District Historil Society print, Cynthia crimeIn the early afternoon of March 20, 1859 Krieger was walkg to the town of Gayndah along Old Mundubbera Road when she than a week later her body was found by passg drovers, about 4. (Supplied: Tom F Hampstead, thor of A life cut short: the story of Anna Kathera Krieger and the early days of the Krieger fay Gayndah)The victimKrieger was born Nothfeln, Germany on July 4, 1836 and emigrated to Queensland wh her hband time Atralia was arrivg Brisbane's Moreton Bay aboard the ship Ple, she lived on Brovia Statn near Bundaberg wh her hband and parents, before movg alone a few towns away to Gayndah to learn drsmakg on Febary 23, has been suggted she was leavg her hband as she may have tried to do once then got a job at Mount Debatable sheep statn workg as a hoemaid on March 13, 1859 jt one week before she was killed.

(Supplied: Tom F Hampstead)The spectsThe hband: Krieger was married to Frerick Lueckel before emigratg to had left him once for a few days earlier 1859, but he had brought her back home to Brovia told police he last saw his wife on Febary 23 when she left Brovia for Gayndah to learn Berthelsen said others who had rearched the se found suggtns her hband had been abive. "I thk would still be advisable to send an experienced officer to Gayndah to enavour to disver if possible the perpetrator of this most foul murr, and also to track and disver the man Reichnacker, " the attorney-general wrote Augt 1859. (ABC Wi Bay: Js Lodge)The quiryMs Berthelsen said the vtigatn Krieger's murr had been "very lackadaisil" April 1859, a magisterial quiry was held to terme why more had not been done to fd her Berthelsen said at the time of her ath Gayndah was a small town wh a populatn of about 600, and wh a number of Che and German immigrants there was a clear racial divi.

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A few years later, June 1861, Gayndah's police magistrate wrote to the lonial secretary Brisbane regardg the failure of the lol police regardg the vtigatn to Krieger's murr. Apparently someone may have nfsed to on their athbed Wtern Atralia, " Ms Robson story has been passed down through the generatns wh some tails lost, changed or exaggerated over the Robson said the story she had been told was that "she was found a bag a gum tree, chopped up to bs" Gayndah mayor Peter Huth said there were some thoughts had been a stockman who ro across om Mount Perry and "by the time they found her body he'd already had time to ri back home" stori have also been told over the s of people seeg ghosts, near her grave, the area subsequently named Graveyard of the rmatn for this story was taken om rearch rried out by Nancy Roberts and fay members Bill Davis and Ruby Stevens. The unique Town Clock signed the shape of a cs tree, the staed glass and stals steel timepiece which stands proudly the ma street, picts stori of the Gayndah district.

Town of Gayndah From Wikipedia, the ee encyclopedia The Town of Gayndah is a former lol ernment area the Wi Bay–Burt area Queensland, Atralia, centred on Gayndah.

The Gayndah district was settled as a part of the great pastoral expansn of the late 1840s, and Archer's Lookout near the Gayndah high school marks a hill memorialised as the place where Thomas Archer surveyed the Burt Valley. Gayndah's ma thoroughfare, Capper Street, has four s listed on the Queensland herage register: the urt hoe (1920s), Mellors shop (1922), the former shire hall (1930s) and the war memorial (1921). The Monto Branch rail le which pass through Mungar, Monto, Thoomba, Biggenn, Didt, Gayndah, Mundubbera and Eidsvold was classified as a 'seldom ed' le and has seen very ltle rail age sce 2008.

SHIRE OF GAYNDAH

Doreen O'Sullivan, Gayndah on the Burt, Toowoomba, Doreen O'Sullivan, 1995Gayndah: our town and our people, Gayndah Development Associatn, 2004Jill Slack, Then and now: an Aborigal history of Gayndah, Gayndah, Gayndah Orange Ftival Commtee, 1997. Summarize this article for a 10 years oldSHOW ALL QUESTIONSThe Shire of Gayndah was a lol ernment area loted the northern tchment of the Burt River, Queensland, Atralia.

Erected 1928, to replace a urt hoe datg probably om the 1850s, the Gayndah Court Hoe surviv as an important illtratn of the pattern of Gayndah's velopment as an official and mercial centre for the Burt district of Queensland. Crern GThe place has a strong or special associatn wh a particular muny or cultural group for social, cultural or spirual proment central lotn of the urt hoe Gayndah, also monstrat the importance of the urt hoe and s associated offic wh the town. Loted the bs centre of Gayndah, the Court Hoe was erected 1928, and replaced an earlier brick urt hoe buildg loted approximately half a e om the prent urt hoe.

COURT HOE, GAYNDAH

Gayndah's early growth as a pastoral "pal" is largely attributed to the termatn of the squatters, and for a short time, the town reputedly rivalled Brisbane as the pal for Queensland.

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The Court Hoe is set back om the footpath, and punctuat the streetspe which is posed of shops wh verandahs supported on posts over the footpath Gayndah Court Hoe is a typil example of the work of the Public Works Department and is a ntuatn of the tradn of timber urt ho Queensland untry towns, adaptg to civic functn vernacular elements and materials mon to domtic buildgs. You n fd stori of this man on the ter- his story speaks of his honour and about what an credible man he was, 's tertg to fd this Gayndah but when I rearched he appears to have attend high school here and was much loved town. Set on the banks of the Burt River Queensland, Gayndah is reported to have once rivalled Brisbane and Ipswich to bee the pal of the new lony of Brisbane (first known as the ‘Moreton Bay Settlement’) and Ipswich had been settled somewhat earlier than Gayndah, they are both classified as ‘ci’ – hence, the actualy that as a town, Gayndah, is, fact, Queensland’s olst..

The 14th May 1848, Thomas and Charl Archer left Cooyar, jt over 200 km south of Gayndah, wh a party of 16, which clud shepherds, bullock drivers and hut keepers; 2 drays, drawn by 10 Oxen each; 3 hors, 1 mare and foal; pl more hors which were owned by the men of the party; 2 tons of flour; 1, 500 pounds of sugar; 2.

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They ntue their journey, and Thomas Archer rightly claims that he was the first man to drive a bullock dray through what was to be the town of Gayndah a short time. “Source: Excerpts – ‘The Disvery, Exploratn and Early Settlement of the Upper Burt’ – by Mr HS Bloxsome, Delubra, Mundubbera – read 25th Augt 1942 – pp 341Gayndah was first known as ‘Norton’s Camp’ – Norton havg been a rrier.

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“ Source: Excerpt – ‘Triumph the Tropics – An Historil Sketch of Queensland’ – by Sir Raphael Cilento – published 1959 – pp 361The Archer Brothers acunt of that first river crossg across the Burt River where Gayndah now stands, was published the Rockhampton ‘Morng Bullet’ on the 7th May 1953: ‘Tale of a River Crossg‘”... Wilk and Elltt Brothers, and the very well-known “Mount Debateable” Statn, 4 out of Gayndah, by Gee Matta, the first squatter who ever brought sheep om the Darlg Downs to a statn below the Range at Helidon. “Eidsvold” Statn was taken up by the Archer Brothers 1843 and om them passed to the Ivory the foundatns of Gayndah were beg laid there were only a few squatters on the Burt, and the were nearly all ted men of good fai wh mand of money and the nfince of the Banks and fancial stutns...

Durg this year Gayndah had also acquired s first pub, the ‘Corth Arms’, and by 1850 the town had s own Police Maland Mercury published the followg excerpts on the 4th January 1851:Maland Mercury – 4 Jan 1851Maland Mercury – 4 Jan 1851It sounds like the mail n uld have been que a dangero unrtakg for jt over £8 per week..

ARCHERS LOOKOUT (GAYNDAH) - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU GO

The Gazette now reprents the Prs Gayndah, which is a very prospero town of nearly a thoand people, the centre of a thrivg district of farmers and u-growers and squatters, wh a populatn of over 4, 000 railway was opened to Gaynday on December 16, 1907... “Source: Excerpt – ‘The History of Queensland: Its People & Indtri’ – by Matthew J Fox – published c 1923 – pp 824The first mail ach ran om Maryborough to Gayndah  1861 – the trip takg two days wh Degilbo beg the half-way racg beme a large part of Gaydah’s culture. “Source: Excerpt – ‘The Genis of Queensland’ – by Henry Stuart Rsell – published 1888 – pp 291It is tertg to read the article about the vis to Gayndah by WB Tooth, q  the Febary of 1858 – the year before the separatn of Queensland om the lony of New South Wal – seems not much has changed over the years..

Sight to the Christmas of 1860  Gayndah rgs wh an air of hope, promise, muny, fun and tails are elive, Gayndah had acquired s first hospal sometime prr to 1860 as the followg excerpt of an article nfirms:”...

Three patients were admted, durg the last month, the hospal – 1 pper and 2 pay patients; discharged – 1 pay; remag – 2 pper and 1 Excerpt – ‘The Moreton Bay Courier’ – Article ‘Gayndah (om our Own Corrponnt. Even those dim days the ndn of the Burt Terrace, a rerve nng along the river of the same name, was severely mented upon, and the wrer of a letter poted out the beti of Gayndah, and the need for improvements...

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“Gayndah Bank c 1906‘Gayndah State School‘ opened on the 12th October 1863 and remas today as one of the betiful historic buildgs that le the streets of Gayndah. A snippet of the evolutn of Gayndah as perceived the year 1897:“On enterg Wetheron Run, the traveller is well the Burt pastoral district, wh the exceptn of several small agricultural settlements around the small towns of Gayndah, Nanango, and the mg town of Eidsvold, entirely voted to ttle-raisg. Gayndah, the pal of the district, was 35 years ago a very prospero and thrivg town, for those days breedg ew were sellg eely at over a guea a head, to stock northern untry; but no attentn was paid towards fg h blood to their flocks, and what wh -breedg and overstockg sheep fast terrated and have now vanished om the district.

The amazg mm clus exampl of the hom of the earlit pneer era, as well as an enormo ventory of historic machery, rriag and artifacts – a ‘mt see’ for all who vis Gayndah, pecially the history enthiasts.

GAYNDAH ... QLD

In the wtern part of the area Lower Triassic ntental sediments and volnics have been posed a broad shallow bas which overlaps the flted ntact between the Lower Palaeozoic and Upper Palaeozoic [542 to 251 ln years ago] basal un this area is the “Gayndah Beds” prisg of sandstone, shale, al and nglomerate.

GAYNDAH FACTS FOR KIDS

Gentle warpg of the “Gayndah Beds” the vicy of Gayndah, is probably due to adjtment by fltg of the Lower Palaeozoic “Perry Flt” is a small sectn of a leament which has geologil ntrol over a large portn of south-east Queensland. “Source: Excerpt – ‘Geologil Society of Atralia – Queensland Divisn – Gui Book – Maryborough Bas Field Conference – October 10-11, 1964’ – pp, Gayndah attracts many ternatnal backpackers for the duratn the harvt season, which breath life to the town, however, is evint that the town has suffered greatly due to the recent flood events.