SLAB COTTAGE REMOVED FROM HAMILTON PROPERTY AT DAYBORO, QUEENSLAND

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Overview

Colour photo of dwelling built with timber slabs. It has a verandah with table & chairs, old harness bits and a lean-to on side nearest front of photo.
Dray of some sort in foreground with wood wheels.
Would seem building is in a village of some sort and as such is not related to the Toodyay area.

Historical information

See also Shire of Toodyay photographs 2001-1557 & 2001-1561. (Identification of cottage taken from signage visible in those photos.)

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).

Note: Dayboro is a rural town and locality in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia. 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. https://ourstory.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/3095

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2001.1575

Item type

Photographs

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

85 mm

Height or length

125 mm

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