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Greetings from the RHSQ

Greetings from the RHSQ

by RHSQ Administration | Dec 21, 2018 | From the Archives, RHSQ Updates, Uncategorized

Get historical during the holidays and see you again on the 8 January 2019!

From the Archives: Irvinebank

From the Archives: Irvinebank

by RHSQ Administration | Nov 22, 2018 | From the Archives, RHSQ Updates

Irvinebank, near Mareeba, is west of Cairns on the Atherton Tableland. Once a rich mining town, it is now virtually abandoned. Established in 1884, it yielded tin until about 1900. Many of the buildings in the town are heritage-listed. At a time when gold was the...

From the Archives: Paronella Park

From the Archives: Paronella Park

by RHSQ Administration | Oct 18, 2018 | From the Archives, RHSQ Updates

Spanish immigrant, Jose Paronella, came to North Queensland in 1913 to work as a cane-cutter.  In 1924 he returned to Spain, married Margarita and brought her back to see the piece of tropical scrub that he was intent on buying.  His dream was to build a castle within...

Armistice Day Essay Competition

Armistice Day Essay Competition

by RHSQ Administration | Sep 19, 2018 | From the Archives, RHSQ Updates

Armistice Day Essay Competition for Queensland students: To commemorate this year’s Armistice Day the Royal Historical Society of Queensland invites year 5 and 6 students - or younger if their teacher recommends them - to tell us in 150 words or less what peace means...

From the Archives: Eidsvold

From the Archives: Eidsvold

by RHSQ Administration | Aug 30, 2018 | From the Archives, RHSQ Updates

Eidsvold explored by Thomas Archer whose Nordic family soon settled there and built the first homestead in 1850. This family later sold out to the Ivory brothers, two Scots, who built the first golf course in Queensland on Eidsvold station. Later still the station was...

From the Archives: Ravenswood

From the Archives: Ravenswood

by RHSQ Administration | Aug 23, 2018 | From the Archives, RHSQ Updates

Ravenswood in Queensland is an old gold mining town which was heritage listed in the 1980s by both the Australian Heritage Commission and the National Trust of Queensland. Of all the many grand hotels Browne’s Ravenswood Hotel was, in 1896, the ‘most prominent...

Whitey is on the Loose again!

Whitey is on the Loose again!

by RHSQ Administration | Jul 5, 2018 | From the Archives, RHSQ Updates

The historic re-enactment left this morning from the Commissariat Store, 115 William Street, headquarters of The Royal Historical Society, at 9.35 am, on 5 July 2018 precisely 100 years after the original trip. On the fifth of July at 9.35am 1918 Fred Eager left from...

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