History Emu Park, Queensland

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fisherman s beach @ emu park, queensland, circa 1940



prime minister stanley bruce , mrs bruce @ emu park, 1926



passengers @ emu park railway station


emu park s european history dates 1860s when jardine family established cattle grazing property south of current town, @ zilzie, anagram of lizzie jardine.


emu park township established in 1870s when several rockhampton families built seaside holiday houses on hills overlooking 2 beaches feature of town - fisherman s beach , pine beach. emu park connected rockhampton train in 1888 , became popular, select, seaside resort time on. branch yeppoon, further north opened in 1910.


hewittville post office opened on 12 november 1883 (a receiving office had been open 1876) , renamed emu park in 1890. 1920s town boasted 2 large hotels, cinema, court house, state primary school, public library, shops , many guest houses visitors. small pier opened mrs bruce, wife of prime minister, stanley bruce, in 1926 , bell park, shady park on shores of fisherman s beach established in 1930s.


the railway link rockhampton closed in 1960s due declining passenger numbers , line yeppoon no longer exists. remnants of woppaburra people evicted homeland in greater , south keppel islands lived on in both emu park , yeppoon.








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