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Birth of Patrick Leslie
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Patrick Leslie arrived in Australia
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Allan Cunningham discovered the Darling Downs.
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- Allan Cunningham located Cunningham’s gap by climbing Mt Mitchell as he approached from the Moreton Bay District
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Patrick Leslie arrived at the junction of Sandy Creek (later named) and the Condamine River
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Leslie’s main party arrived at Leslie’s crossing on the Condamine River about 8km below what became Toolburra Station.
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Arthur Hodgson and Gilbert Elliot made contact with the NSW government at Moreton Bay via a track through Cunningham’s Gap. They had ridden from their station, Etonvale (at Mt Rubieslaw)
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Joe Archer, the bullocky, and Gilbert Elliot, found that the Cunningham’s Gap road was far too steep for drays.
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Thomas Alford came to the Darling Downs and established a store on the Leyburn Road leading west. Arthur Hodgson later assisted his move to establish his store at “The Springs”.
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Thomas Alford came to the Darling Downs and established a store on the Leyburn Road leading west. Arthur Hodgson later assisted his move to establish his store at “The Springs”.
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The original Bull’s Head Inn was built
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.There were 26 stations on the downs.
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First horse races at Drayton.
Patrick Leslie bought back Goomburra Station
First meeting re the school at Drayton held in the Bull’s Head Inn.
A bridle track along the Mt Lofty foothills came into use. -
- The first head station was established by the Leslie brothers at Toolburra This was the first permanent pastoral settlement in present day QLD
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The first hotel was erected in the “Drayton Agricultural Reserve”. The hotel, originally called “ The Seperation” ( reflecting the owner’s spelling limitations) was later named “The Royal” (Snell St) and was used in the1860’s as a meeting place of the first municipal council.
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The first oat crop for the area was grown at the south-west corner of Perth and Ruthven Streets.
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The first group of German immigrants arrived on the Downs.
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- Joseph Booth’s first Road Passenger and Mail Transport was established between Drayton and Ipswich.
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A post office was opened in James St, a short distance from the north-east corner of the Neil St intersection.
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- Joseph Booth’s first Road Passenger and Mail Transport was established between Drayton and Ipswich.
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Queensland was named after Queen Victoria, Queen of England. Sir George Ferguson Bowen became the first Governor of Queensland.
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The proclamation making Toowoomba municipality and empowering its citizens to elect a mayor and aldermen was published. It was gazetted on 1 December, 1860. The municipality occupied all the land that had been surveyed at “The Swamp”, although much of it was surveyed as suburban to Drayton.
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Galton’s Public House (Withcott) was built as a staging house for those travellers who did not want to tackle the Main Range in darkness.
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Freeman Cobb ran coaches between Bigge’s Camp (Grandchester) and Toowoomba.
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Toowoomba’s population was 3541.
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The Margaret Street post office was opened. The building cost 5000 pounds ($10 000); the clock cost 250 pounds ($500)
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Cunningham’s Gap road was opened
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Westbrook Station was settled by John (Tinker) Campbell.
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Census of the Downs showed 564 men, 24 women. 55% of the Darling Downs’ population had been transported as convicts. This is easy to understand as all Pastoralists used convicts or “ticket of leave” labour.
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Clifford House was built as a Squatter’s Club