SLAB COTTAGE REMOVED FROM HAMILTON PROPERTY OF DAYBORO, QUEENSLAND

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Overview

Colour photo of slab hut. Sign in photo reads: 'This cottage was removed from the property of Mr & Mrs Darcy Hamilton of Dayboro. Slabs from which the building was built were split by Mr Alf Pringle of Kobble Creek 1877".

Historical information

Based on Shire of Toodyay photo 2001.1575, this cottage appears to be a part of a pioneer village recreation, possibly Old Petrie Town, formerly known as the North Pine Country Park located at Whiteside, a suburb in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland. (26km from Brisbane CBD).

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.1561

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

85 mm

Height or length

125 mm

Contextual Information

See also Shire of Toodyay photo 2001.1557.

Note: Dayboro is a rural town and locality in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayboro,_Queensland

Dayboro was first known as Hamilton, having been so named after a farmer, Hugh Hamilton, who was appointed Receiving Officer for mail in 1875. In 1892, it became known as Terrors Creek...In 1917… the township acquired a new name... honour[ing] another notable early settler, William Henry Day.
Ref: https://ourstory.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/3095

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Historic significance

Shire of Toodyay

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