Logan , QLD, is located between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, encompassing urban and semi-rural environments on the southern outskirts of the Brisbane metropolitan area.
Logan city was named after Captain Patrick Logan, one of the founders of the Moreton Bay convict settlement.
Yugambeh and Jaggera Aboriginal peoples
Logan region is the traditional home of the Yugambeh and Jaggera Aboriginal peoples.
Yugambeh is the traditional language term for the Aboriginal people that inhabit the territory between the Logan river and the Tweed river. Many tribal names are derived from the local language, often meaning 'man' or 'person'. The name Yugambeh (or Yugam) follows another common convention of language names in the area, by naming the language by its word for 'no'. (The word for 'no' in Aboriginal languages was often an ethnonymic marker of difference between Aboriginal groups.)
The Yugambeh use of the word Miban/Mibanj / Mibin meaning wedge-tailed eagle to denote an indigenous person of the group.
The Yugambeh kinship system is classificatory, meaning all members of the same social division are considered siblings and are not marriageable. Being exogamous (marrying outside one's own tribe), prospective husbands amongst the Yugambeh clans visited and stayed in the
territories of their future wives for 1-2 years.
The Yugambeh and Jaggera people were hunters, gathers and fishers.
The Australian English word 'yakka' (loosely meaning 'work', as in 'hard yakka') came from the Yuggera language (yaga, 'strenuous work').
Some alternative names for Jagara were given as Yagara, Turrubul and Yackarabul. Ridley (1866).
Scarification (the creation of raised, cicatricial scars) was a common and significant cultural practice and signified which group or clan a person belonged to.
The Jaggera and Yugambeh people have
both made conflicting claims to native title over the same areas.
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Initiation Ceremony
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In every day life a man always wore a belt or " makamba," in which he carried his boomersmg. This belt measured from six feet to eight feet in length, and was worn twisted round and round the waist. It was netted either from 'possum or human hair— but only the great men of the tribe wore human hair belts. A man could also wear "grass-bugle" necklaces (" kulgaripin ") at any time ; these being made from reeds cut into Uttle pieces and strung together on a string of fibre. But in addition to his everyday dress, during a corrobboree a blackfellow would wear round his forehead a band made from root fibre, very nicely plaited, and painted white with clay ; also the skin of a native dog's tail (cured with charcocd and dried in the sun), or, rather, a part of one, for one tail made three headdresses when cut up the middle. This piece of tail stuck round the head like a beautiful yellow brush — the natives called it " gilla," and the forehead band " tinggil." Then on his arm kangarooskin bands were worn, and these had to be made from the underbody part of the skin, which was of a much lighter colour than the back. Lastly, a man was ornamented with swan's down stuck in his hair and beard, and in strips up and down his body and legs, back and front ; or, if he was an inland black, parrot feathers took the place of the down.
Women wore practically no ornaments except necklaces, 'and feathers stuck in their short hair in bunches, with bees' wax. (The feathers and bees' wax were always ready in their dillies.) Their hair was always kept short, as they were apt to tear at each other when fighting. Men's hair grew long, and some of the great men had theirs tied up in a knob on the top of the head, and when suc^i was the case they wore in this knob httle sticks ornamented with yellow feathers from the cockatoo's topknot.Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837) Read
here1600s
An old blue gum named Gandalf, in the Logan area, with a trunk that spans 2.38 metres across was named by a property owner and arborist because it has a lot of character. Tree-age testing using a resistograph (a tree-drilling tool) confirmed its age back to the 1600s.
1820s
European exploration began in 1826 when Captain Patrick Logan named the Logan River.
1830s
Captain Logan was killed by Aboriginal Australians during an exploration in 1830. Logan's legacy is complicated. He was an important explorer and founding father in Queensland, and yet his harsh treatment of convicts and aggressive interactions with Aboriginal people are problematic.
Apparition of Captain Logan
CAPTAIN LOGAN was in charge of Brisbane when it was one of the worst convict settlements of the times, from the year 1825 to his death in 18S0. History seems to be divided about Cap tain Logan. No one doubts he. was a stern disciplinarian, and fairly hard hearted even for those callous days, but other reports indicate he was not the black-hearted fiend most writings paint him. For instance, it is reported that the captain once said to convicts: 'Do you know where you arc? You are in hell— and I'm the devil!" And something of a hell it was—with the treadmill and lashes that cut a man's back to ribbons. So there wasn't a great deal of grief in the young Brisbane settlement when the news of Logan's death came through. Something of a botanist and explorer, early in October, 1830, the captain set out with seven men to go ns far as Mount Irwin. On the way they had a little trouble with hostile natives— not the local tribe. On the way back Logan told his men to. go ahead to a certain rendezvous and he would meet them there. No one knows why he made such an arrangement. In any case, he never arrived at the meeting place. His men pushed on to Limestone, feeling sure he
would be there. But he never came to Limestone, either. Seriously perturbed, they split into two groups, one go ing back to Brisbane to relate the dis appearance whilst the other retraced their tracks in an effort to find some trace of the missing commandant. Not far out of Limstonc they came across some tracks, and following these they eventually found a dead horse, bogged in a creek, whilst the ground around told of a struggle. Soon they found the body of Logan, buried iacc downwards in a shallow trench. The unfortunate man had evidently been clubbed to death with waddies. Now .the peculiar facts of the case are these: Captain Logan must have been kilted on the morning of the seven teenth. yet later thai day convicts work ing on the hanks of the Brisbane River saw him on the other hank, waving to them. Surprised, but quick to do his bidding, they hurriedly ran for a punt and rowed across, hut as they nearod the bank the figure of Captain Logan vanished! In the hundred odd years that have slipped by- since then the apparition of Captain Logan has never been scon on the banks of Brisbane River — perhaps.
Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947)
1840s
The penal settlement based in Brisbane was closed in 1841.
Settlers arrived in the 1840s which led to conflict with Aboriginal people.
Greenbank was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s. The early name of the district was Teviot but derives its present name Greenbank from the name of a cattle property belonging to William Slack.
The first leases of land in the Logan area were issued from 1849.
In the 1840s, timber-getters were searching for cedar and hardwood.
Settlers arrived from Britain, Ireland and Germany to establish agricultural land, leading to the development of the region. Cotton was one of the first commercial crops.
The region began to develop as a
commercial hub, with the establishment of essential services and infrastructure.
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| Bark dwelling at Logan Village, QLD, SLQLD, no date |
The name Browns Plains became in use as a place name in 1840. The district was mostly used for growing tobacco until the 1950s
On the first accurate map of the region compiled by the surveyor Robert Dixon and published in 1842, the Logan River is shown with a navigation limit marked near the locality of Logan Village.
1850sJimboomba House was built around 1851 for the Henderson family. It served as a stage coach depot on the Casino mail route. The first hotel in Jimboomba. The original spelling was Gimboomba, named after a sheep and livestock station based where the township is today. The name is Aboriginal, meaning, place of loud thunder and little rain.
Queensland separated from New South Wales in 1859.
1860s
Logan Village was established in 1862, on the site that was as far as boats could navigate down Logan River.
The
Crown Land Alienation Act of 1860 allowed
settlers to purchase agricultural land, leading to increased farming activities.
The Education Act of 1860 created a Board of General Education for Queensland and new schools were built, local communities contributing to the cost.
During the American Civil War the cotton industry flounded in America but cotton was grown in the Logan area for the English cotton gins.
The declaration of the Logan and Eight Mile Plains Agricultural Reserves in 1862 led to the displacement of Aboriginal people. Though some worked on farms as skilled workers. Other Aboriginal people engaged in guerilla tactics, while Aboriginal man Bilin Bilin negotiated with Pastor Housman, a German missionary. He has many descendants today. (see photo of Bilin Bilin below)
The first Cobb and Co. coach services were running through Browns Plains as early as 1863.
Robert Towns established a cotton plantation called Townsvale in the
area now known as Veresdale and Gleneagle. In 1863, he imported 73 Melanesians (locally known as Kanakas) to work on the plantation. A school, churches, hotels and a police station soon sprung up and people moved to the area. But when the the rail line Beaudesert, south of Townsvale provided better transportation, people moved away.
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| BLACKBIRDS AMONG THE SUGARCANE In 1863 the schooner, Don Juan, dropped anchor in the Brisbane River, bringing 67 kanakas from the South Seas, hired by Captain Robert Towns at 10/- a month, plus rations, to work on his cotton plantation on the Logan River. It was the very year that America fought its civil war on the issue of black slavery. One day, sleepy Brisbane Town awakened and rubbed its eyes with astonishment to see black men, who were not aboriginals, driving bullock teams laden with cotton bales over old wooden Victoria Bridge to Queen's Wharf for shipment to England. Cotton was booming in Queensland. In America, Federal ships blockaded every Confederate port, and thousands of bales of cotton intended for Man chester piled up uselessly on the wharves at Savan nah and Charleston. The manufacturers of Britain, hungry for cotton, turned to Queensland for their supplies. Captain Towns was violently attached by the Press of the day, and accused of introducing the Slave Trade to Queensland — the very thing thai had caused the civil war across the Pacific. Captain Towns retorted that the natives were properly hired and well provided for in the barracks he had built, and that they were 'British subjects' and 'full colonists for 12 months!' Truth (Brisbane, Qld. : 1900 - 1954) |
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| World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955) |
Beenleigh had Australia's oldest rum distillery built in 1864.
The first European settler at Cedar Creek was Jessie Daniells who established a timber mill in the area in 1864.
The Dennis family were first Europeans to settle at Daisy Hill. James Dennis immigrated in 1864 on the ship Flying Cloud. Other early pioneers were the Usher family, who grew grapes and made and sold wine. (Daisy Hill was named by the Dennis family after their daughters noticed native Daisies growing across the hill)
A government survey for the new town of Beenleigh was conducted in 1866.
Crops grown along the Logan river included cotton, potatoes, maize, oats and sugar cane.A sugar mill, was built at 'Loganholme' in 1867.
German immigrants arrived from the 1864 onwards. Bethania was founded by Germans during the 1860s. A Lutheran church was built there in 1864 made from slabs. (more
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William Stanley Warren planted a sugar crop at Mount Warren Park in February 1865.
The first sugarcane mill in the Beenleigh area was
built in 1867, and by 1885, another 29 were operational.
Carbrook was originally known as Gramzow after the village of Gramzow, Uckermark, Northern Germany, the name being given to it by the early German settlers who arrived in 1867.
Edens Landing is named after Henry Eden, an early resident who operated a ferry service on a punt across the Logan River.
Beenleigh Post Office opened on 1 August 1867.
A cotton gin, which was converted to a sugar mill, was built at Loganholme in 1867.
The region initially thrived and attracted settlers with its agriculture, particularly sugar and dairy farming, while mining also contributed to the local economy and infrastructure development.
Yarrabilba is the Aboriginal word for
place of song. The area contained two bora rings where ceremonies involving singing took place.
1870s
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| Beenleigh Hotel, Beenleigh, QLD, 1870, Queensland State Archives |
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| Logan Village area. Typical of an Early settlers' house. 1870. John Oxley Library |
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| The Albert River, 1870. The Walrus - The Floating Distillery. In 1865, brothers-in-law Francis Davey and John Gooding planted sugar cane on their estate named Beenleigh. When the S.S. Walrus ran aground on the Albert River in 1884, they acquired its still—marking the beginning of the Beenleigh Rum Distillery. SLQLD |
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| The Planters Rest HotelOwned by M Tansey the Planters Rest Hotel was located in Beenleigh, Logan, QLD, 1870, a, SLQLD |
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| German family outside a farm building in the Bethania area, Queensland, ca. 1871, SLQLD |
Beenleigh State School was opened on 6 February 1871.
William Underwood had established the Commercial Hotel, which operated from the early 1870s through to 1895 on land nearby Beenleigh Road.
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| Windy day on a small selection, probably in the Logan Beenleigh area, QLD, ca 1872, SLQLD |
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| Family group in front of their home, Beenleigh district, ca. 1872, SLQLD |
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| Wesleyan Church, Logan Village, Queensland, ca. 1872, SLQLD |
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| Selector's house, probably near Logan in the Beenleigh district, QLD, 1872. This dwelling with its supporting stumps to protect it from floods and termites shows the early use of a gabled roof over a four-roomed plan. The decorative bargeboard recalls the details on American villa residences of the 1850s and 1860s. Beenleigh at the time of Boag's visit was becoming a major commercial centre for the Logan and Albert districts. Pretty cottages of this kind sat by the roadside approach to the town and these residences were surrounded by 'tasty bits of garden'. Photographer: William Boag, SLQLD |
Loganholme State School opened on 24 May 1873.
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| The photograph shows the Logan Store which was situated on the south side of the Logan River, QLD, opposite Loganholme plantation and sugar mill. The operator was James MacMillan, who also worked as the district's estate agent. 1872, SLQLD |
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| August Lee - baker, confectioner and fancy biscuit maker, Brisbane Road, Beenleigh, Logan, QLD, 1872, SLQLD. The stores and other buildings were described as having 'a prosperous, natty appearance |
Belivah Provisional School opened circa 1874. Belivah is an Aboriginal word, indicating
big fella fighting ground.St George's Anglican Church was officially
opened on Thursday 16 September 1875.
St Joseph's Catholic Church was the first Catholic church in the Logan River district and was opened in 1876.
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| Bush school in the Logan Beenleigh area, QLD, ca 1872. This is believed to be the Logan non-vested (non-Government funded) school, established in 1870, in what school inspectors described at the time as a 'new, well-ventilated, and roomy building'. The structure also was used as a place of worship. One teacher was employed to teach 58 children. He was reported to be 'painstaking and conscientious', but the level of attainment was regarded as very low, caused by the irregular attendance. Among the subjects offered, geography, writing and spelling were regarded as 'especially imperfect'. SLQLD |
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| THE LOGANHOLME SUGAR WORKS owners Messrs. Fryar and Strachan's mill. A wharf reserve was established in 1868. By 1869, Strachan had gone into partnership with William Fryar and established the first sugar mill on the river at Loganholme< QLD, Historic Places collection |
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| Logan Witness (Beenleigh, Qld. : 1878 - 1893), Saturday 23 March 1878 |
was a weekly English-language newspaper published in Beenleigh, Queensland, Australia
from 9 February 1878 to 10 June 1893.
1880s |
SCENES IN THE LOGAN AND ALBERT DISTRICTS, QUEENSLAND.
1. Ageston Sugar Factory and Plantation. 2. Tambourine Mountain from Mundoolan Station 3. Kanakas' Ration Day. 4.The Albert River at Kinghorn Farm. 5 KanakaHuts. 6. Ferry near Logan Village. 7. Waterford Crossing and Bridge.Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Saturday 21 January 1882, |
By 1882, Logan village had a ferry, a hotel, a store and a church. It also had a reserved area for the future school.
Cobb & Co had a changing station for their coaches at a hotel in Greenbank on the corner of Teviot Road and Pub Lane.
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| ABORIGINAL CORROBOREE. Our Logan and Albert correspondent writes: -A very large number of blacks are at present scattered about in this district, principally en-gaged in ring-barking, pulling and busking maize, &c, »te. The principal cause of their presence, however, is the holding of a grand corrobboree. Having got a complimentary ticket, I made my way to the camp, attracted by the lights and barking of dogs, of which there were about 300. On nearing tho camp, I found it pitched in a circle of about fifty yards circumference, a large and very good likeness of an alligator, about 14ft. long, made of bark and painted so as to resemble one in the minutest degree, near to one side of the circle. Having arrived some minutes before the commencement, wo could see dark forms flitting about, some with fire-sticks and spears, while further in the background in the dark a wild unearthly concentrated scream of about a dozen voices would make your blood curdle, to be answered imme-diately in an opposito direction by a similar scream or shout. The beating of nullah nullahs and boomerangs, with the accompani-ment of a few voices, formed the orchestra, Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Tuesday 27 February 1883 |
The 'Beenleigh Township Estate' was advertised for auction in 1885.
The Beenleigh railway line first opened in 1885.
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| The first train arrives in Beenleigh, Logan City, QLD. Known as the Logan railway line, the now Beenleigh Line opened to Loganlea in April 1885 and was opened beyond Beenleigh to Southport in 1889. SLQLD |
In April 1885, several portions of subdivided land in an area known as Waterford North and South were advertised for auction by John Cameron
Holmview takes its name from the railway station, which was established in 1885.
Beenleigh Wesleyan Methodist Church
opened on Sunday 28 November 1886.
Deebing Creek Mission was built from c. 1887 to c. 1915.
Commercial dairying began in the Beenleigh area in 1889.
1890s
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| The Loganholme Ferry on the main road to Brisbane, QLD. 1890, PD |
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| Australian South Sea Islanders at Windaroo sugar plantation, Logan City, Queensland, ca. 1890, SLQLD. Windaroo sugar plantation, one of several nineteenth century enterprises along the Albert River. |
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| Main Street in Beenleigh, Queensland, ca. 1893. Photograph taken from the veradah of the Beenleigh Hotel, looking across the intersection of the James Street, Main Street and City Road, southwards along Main Street. The building at left was the Queensland National Bank. This building was originally (1870) the Planter's Rest Hotel. SLQLD |
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| Loganholme, Queensland, one teacher school 1895. This former school house was built at Loganholme, Queensland, Australia, and was opened in 1873. It was sited facing the Pacific Highway near the former Cotton Companys Road, now part of the Logan Motorway, with David Freeman as the first teacher. After the Loganholme State School was relocated further west towards Drews Road in 1974, the building was moved to Brisbane at the Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education. Queensland University of Technology |
The Aboriginal Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897, was described as being passed 'to make Provision for the better Protection and Care of the Aboriginal and half-caste Inhabitants of the Colony, and to make more effectual Provision for Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Opium'.
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| Logan Village. Pictured are members of the Wendt Family. During this time Logan Village played a crucial role in the region's development and river traffic. Established as the headquarters for river navigation, it featured a wharf and a store, both built in 1862. 1898, SLQLD |
Jimboomba Timber Reserve Provisional School opened circa 1899. Although historically a rural area, as at 2021, Jimboomba is almost entirely residential.
1900sOld St Mark's Anglican Church at Slacks Creek was built in 1901.
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| Bilin Bilin (born c. 1820; died 1901) was a member of the Yugambeh/Bundjalung people in Australia, who gained respect of the European colonials and received a king plate for it. He was given the title 'Jackey Jackey - King of the Logan and Pimpama'. Bilin Bilin chose to work with the Europeans and be friendly to Christianity, in so much as distributing Bibles, while maintaining his traditional beliefs.[2] In his case, favoring diplomacy over confrontation helped his ability to stay on his ancestral land for most of his life.[3] His diplomacy included demanding equal wages for his people and encouraging them not to leave their land. A Lutheran Pastor, Haussmann, taught him to read and write. |
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| Von Senden family. Description: Von Senden was born in Holstein, Germany in 1852 and came to Australia in 1865. The family were pioneers of the Logan Agricultural Reserve. 1900, SLQLD |
The Logan Village Hotel burned to the ground in 1904. Although the owners lost everything, the building's owner William Drynan soon rebuilt the hotel.
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| Crocodile shot in the Logan River near Logan Village, QLD, 1905, SLQLD |
Eagleby Provisional School opened in 1906.
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| INTERDISTRICT CRICKET AT BEENLEIGH, QLD, Saturday Observer (Brisbane, Qld. : 1904 - 1926), Saturday 9 November 1907 |
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| Rugby Union team from Beenleigh, QLD, ca. 1905, SLQLD |
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| Waterford German Settlement Logan River QLD, 1905, Historic Places collection |
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| Gramzow Mill at Logan Gramzow Mill photographed from the Logan River at Carbrook. 1908, SLQLD |
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| CAFE VICTORIA, BEENLEIGH. FRANZ SCHWEITZER, PROPRIETOR. Logan and Albert Bulletin (Southport, Qld. : 1896 - 1901; 1909; 1921; 1922; 1928), Saturday 25 December 1909 |
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| Logan Village Hotel, Logan, QLD, 1912, SLQLD |
Timber getter Dugald Graham was given permission to erect a siding, the township became known as Graham's Siding in 1913. The name Woodridge is derived from an informal name given to a property owned by Octavius Stubbs.
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Beenleigh, Logan, QLD, . Man with horse and wagon on City Rd. Looking south, 1910, SLQLD |
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| Logan Village.Logan Village Hotel can be seen, 1910, - third building on the right. The railway station can be seen on the left.(Source: State Library of Qld) |
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| Main Street, Beenleigh, Qld - very early 1900s, Kaye |
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| Slacks Street State School, QLD, Queenslander News Budget (Brisbane, Qld. : 1908 - 1920), Saturday 4 June 1910 |
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| St George's Church of England, Beenleigh, QLD, circa 1912, PD (In March 1871, the Reverend Dubois was appointed as the Church of England minister for Beenleigh , preaching his services in the local court house) This timber vernacular style church was designed by the colonial architect FDG Stanley, and built in 1876. |
The Cedar Creek School of Arts was erected in December 1913 by the Upper Albert branch of the Farmers' Union.
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| ON THE NEW CANUNGRA RAILWAY EXTENSION. Logan Village, tho Starting Point.Queenslander News Budget (Brisbane, Qld. : 1908 - 1920), Saturday 3 July 1915 |
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| TROUBLESOME BLACKS. SoMe 400 or 500 blacks havo ~"assembled on the Logan River, and .are threatening the, neighbouring residents. ,Mounted troopers have been despatched from Ipswich and Brisbane to disperse the mob. .Queensland Times (Ipswich, Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Tuesday 17 October 1916 |
WWI
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Studio group portrait of Sergeant (Sgt) George Alexander Tuffley and his mates, all of the 25th Battalion. Identified left to right, back row: 4367 Corporal (Cpl) Frank Burcher; 4549 Sgt George Alexander Tuffley. Front row: 4479 Cpl Lionel Arthur Kirk; 1704 Private John Rowland Alwyn (Jack) Lahey; and 4356 Cpl (later Sgt) Robert Dudley (Dud) Alford MM. Sgt Tuffley was killed in action on 29 August 1916 in Picardie, France. Sgt Alford, a farrier from Logan Village, Qld, was killed in action on 2 September 1918 in Peronne, France, aged 25 years. Place made Egypt: North Egypt, Tel el Kebir
Date made c 18 May 1916 |
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Pugh's (Queensland) official almanac, directory and gazetteer. (1917)
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1920sCornubia was a farm property named Cornubia Park in the 1920s,
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| Beenleigh Rugby Team, QLD, Sports Referee (Brisbane, Qld. : 1915; 1919; 1921 - 1933), Saturday 15 July 1922 |
Woodridge State School opened on 20 May 1924.
1930sThe railway went through Greenbank in 1930.
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| Bridge construction on the Logan River, QLD, 1930 Cars crossing Logan River on the old ferry next to the foundations rising for the new bridge. SLQLD |
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The late Mr. John morrow and Mrs. Morrow, pioneers of Logan-lea, QLD. Well-known families of the district include Shailer, Harris, and Murray. At one period the pioneers grew a lot of cotton, and for a long time this was a profitable crop. Mr. Armstrong cultivated between eight and ten acres, and did well. But the best selling crop was corn, and though there were times when the price per bushel was less than a shilling, still sales were regular, and assured a definite income. Despite poor prices for produce, high prices for food commodities, and floods and droughts, the pioneers made headway. Mr. Armstrong proudly relates that when he prospered, he abandoned ' the old slab humpy which he and his family had lived in for many years,, and erected an imposing and large cottage of sawn timber. Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Saturday 10 January 1931 |
Heritage Park was settled by Joseph Shirley and William George in the 1930s.
A toll bridge across the Logan River, on the main road from Brisbane to Coolangatta,
opened 1931.
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| Land (Sydney, NSW : 1911 - 1954), Friday 11 October 1935 |
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| Tourist First Look of Beenleigh, QLD, SLQLD, no date |
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| Log barn for curing tobacco, Park Ridge, Logan, QLD, 1933, SLQLD |
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| Beaudesert Times (Qld. : 1908 - 1954), Friday 13 October 1933 |
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| Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wednesday 3 June 1936 |
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| THERE was another "kippa" ring at North Pine, which Petrie says was used by the Logan, Amity Point, North Pine, Moreton, and Bribie Island blacks. Somewhere at Humpybong was still another ring, which was used by the Maroochy, Noosa, Kilcoy, Durundur, and Barambah blacks. One of the penalties of progress is the obliteration of these historic spots which hold so much interest for the anthrop-ologist and the student. In the mystic circle of the "kippa" ring, the boys of the tribe were initiated to the full stature of manhood, and no woman, on pain of death, was allowed to come within coo-ee of the magic inner circle, 600 yards dis-tant from the larger ring, where the wise men of the tribe muttered their incanta-tions and passed the awe-strickcn boys through the final esoteric mysteries of their craft. Here, too, they danced and sang the secret corroboree that no woman must see or hear. WEIRD CEREMONIES It must have been a weird sight when the solitude of the besieg-ing bush was peopled with pillars of burning logs, and fantastic figures brandishing firesticks, danced around the initiates. Limned in the haloes of fire, the solemn faces of the youngsters peer in fearful fascination at the capering figures of their elders, and wondering what new ordeals they would have to face. The ceremonies sometimes lasted for a fortnight, and during that time, the boys were tested for endurance and stamina in every conceivable fashion. For hours at a time they would be forced to remain per-fectly still, with their eyes staring straight ahead. They must not speak on pain of death, and were required to preserve a stoic, immovable countenance, even when the comedians of the tribe strutted before them and performed the most ridiculous antics imaginable, chaffing them and cracking aboriginal "chestnuts," or indulg-ing in clownish horseplay with one another, in studied endeavour to make the boys re-lax their gravity. The boys, having been warned before-hand of the dire consequences that would follow, never dared to laugh. But the greatest ordeal of all must have been the nose-piercing ceremony. With his long sharp nails, the "turre-wan," or wise man, would pinch through the nostrils of the initiate, enlarge the hole with the sharp end of a bone, and thrust through it a small stick about three inches long. The stick remained in position till the nose healed. The hole was after-wards plugged with beeswax in order to keep it open. While the operation was proceeding another wise man slapped the boys ears with his open hand, the notion being that this acted as a sort of anaesthetic to pre-vent the boy feeling the pain! Many of these ceremonies were witnessed by Tom Petrie, and are described in his reminis-cences. ABORIGINAL GLADIATORS THE "kippa" ceremonies were always concluded with a tribal fight, in much the same way as the gladiators of ancient Rome engaged in combat for the delectation of the spectators. But these tribal battles do not seem to have been of a very sanguinary nature. The combatants usually abandoned the battle in most courtly and considerate fashion when one of the warriors was in-jured. The newly fledged "kippas" were in-cluded in the ranks of the warriors. They were covered from head to foot with char-coal, their noses were painted red, and they were decorated with parrot's feathers and swan's down. But not until they had grown a beard were they considered to be grown men. After the "kippa" ceremonies at the Sam-ford ring, inland tribes such as the Ips-wich, Cressbrook, and Mt. Brisbane blacks would, on the authority of Tom Petrie, hold their fight on the site of the Roma Street railway station. The coast tribes from Moreton, Bribie Island, and other places, went either to Eagle Farm or to the locality once known as York's Hollow in the vicinity of Bowen Park. The Bribie Island blacks—they have these many years vanished as a tribe— were great warriors and hunters. The late Mr. A. Meston, who was an authority on aboriginal lore, has recorded that the Bribie blacks were a tribe called Jindoo-barrie, who spoke a dialect called "Oon-doo," closely related to the Cabbee of the Mary River and Wide Bay. In Moreton Bay there were, he says, no fewer than five dialects: "Oondoo" at Bribie; "Coobenpil" at Lytton; "Balloon-gan," at Dunwich; "Noonuccal" at Amity, and "Gnoogee" on Moreton Island. Inter-mediate tribes formed connecting links of communication. Sunday Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1926 - 1954), Sunday 20 June 1937 |
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| The Royal Hotel in 1939. It first opened its doors in the late 1870s. Beenleigh, Logan City, QLD |
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General Store Main St Beenleigh, QLD, SLQLD. (During his life-time William Muchow was engaged in many interests including butchering and general storekeeper in Beenleigh. Mr. Muchow had also
been associated with the Beenleigh Show Society, and Luthern Church) No date. |
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| Beenleigh Hotel, (Moran's Hotel), Beenleigh, Beenleigh, QLD, SLQLD |
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| Beaudesert Times (Qld. : 1908 - 1954), Saturday 28 December 1940, |
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| Fassifern Guardian (Boonah, Qld. : 1905 - 1967), Wednesday 31 March 1943 |
Camp Cable, Australia was a World War II army training base near Logan Village.
Originally part of Kingston, Marsden was subdivided into small farms in 1944 for ex-servicemen.
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| Beenleigh Scouts, Logan, QLD, 1944 |
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| Mrs M. M. MacLeod, of L,ogan Village, has been notified that her husband, Private John Donald MacLeod, died of illness in a prisoner of war camp in Malaya on June 3, 1943. Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Monday 30 July 1945 |
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| Released from Japanese prison, Pte. R. S. Willis, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Willis, Jimboomba. Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Thursday 27 September 1945 |
During World War Two, Quakers were persecuted in Brisbane for being conscientious objectors. This lead to a couple of families, initially the Browns and Souwers, seeking refuge in outlying bushland south of Brisbane. Purchasing a 100 acre block, they cleared the bush by hand and gradually built sheds, homes and farm infrastructure. The plot was named Paxton Farm. Pigeon post was the system employed by Paxton's poultry shop, Stanley Street, Woolloongabba, for transmitting orders to its farm at Slack's Creek.
On 10 April 1945, a RAAF Bristol Beaufort crashed at Greenbank after taking part in an air gunnery exercise at the Gailes Gunnery Range, killing all four crew members. The Greenbank Military Range is a 4,500ha live training facility for the Australian Defence Force located in Greenbank.
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| Paxton Poultry Farm. Accession 6625 Paxton Farm motion picture. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.1940s |
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| Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Saturday 6 April 1946 |
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| Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Tuesday 23 July 1946 |
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Loganholme / Beenleigh, QLD, 1947 - The Logan Toll Bridge Underwater, 23 January 1947
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| Queensland Country Life (Qld. : 1900 - 1905; 1907; 1909 - 1910; 1935 - 1965), Thursday 3 November 1949 |
1950s |
| Rosicrucian Sect's Headquarters, Brown's Plains, QLD, 1950, SLQLD (In 1939, the order purchased 151 acres (61 hectares) at Browns Plains, which by 1941 had expanded to 305 acres (123 hectares). The purchases were at least partly funded by the Rosicrucian Fellowship in Oceanside, California) |
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| Slacks Creek School has operated from numerous locations including the provisional school which operated from 1873. The school name was officially changed to Daisy Hill State School in October 2016. 1951 |
The first use of the name Tanah Merah, a residential suburb in the City of Logan was in December 1952, by the McBride's, an English family who moved to Queensland from Penang, Malaysia.
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| Town of Beenleigh, QLD, 1952, SLQLD |
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| Logan River Bridge, QLD, 1952, Queensland State Archives |
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| An aerial view of Beenleigh, QLD, in 1954, SLQLD |
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Kingston butter factory of the Southern Queens-land Dairy Co. Ltd., one of the most efficient dairy factories in the State; milk drying is its latest undertaking.Queensland Country Life (Qld. : 1900 - 1905; 1907; 1909 - 1910; 1935 - 1965), Thursday 25 February 1954 |
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| Beaudesert Times (Qld. : 1908 - 1954), Friday 8 July 1955 |
1960s
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| This convenience store and petrol station was a landmark at 37 Beenleigh, QLD. Located at Redland Bay Road, Loganholme, Queensland, Australia. Almost opposite the Atlantic Drive intersection, it was from the 1960s one of the few such outlets in the area before the Logan Hyperdome was built further north. It has since been demolished and the land is now zoned for environmental management. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brass_razoo |
Beenleigh State High School opened on 29 Jan 1963,
1970s-80s
Bethania was badly affected by the 1974 Brisbane flood.
Logan City, was officially established as a local government area in 1978 and became a city in 1981. The city was formed from parts of the Albert and Beaudesert Shires.
Residential development began in Waterford West in the 1970s.
INFIN-TEEN Pty. Ltd., a clothing factory, located on the Pacific Highway, Beenleigh, closed 1976.
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| The Big Gun Fruit Market, Logan Road, Underwood, QLD in 1980, was built in the 1970s on the site of Melody Farm. The gun on the roof, a seven tonne World War II anti-aircraft artillery gun, was originally on the ground in next to this building |
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| 1982. The Wild Waters Water Slide Park. Built on the site and replaced by the Logan Hyperdome.Shailer Park, Logan City (Shailer Park is named after Francis and Catherine Shailer, who arrived with their children in the area in 1866 to grow cotton) |
Logan West’s iconic Wineglass Water Tower was built in 1984.
Built after the closure and demolition of Wild Waters water park, the Hyperdome first opened in August 1989.
Eagleby Plaza opened in 1989.
1990s
The Logan Hospital was opened in 1990.
Boronia Heights State School opened on 29 January 1990.
Chung Tian Buddhist Temple is located at Priestdale, part of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist monastic order. Construction of the temple began in January 1991.
The Grand Plaza Shopping Centre at Browns Plains opened in October 1994.
"Black Diggers" Open Aboriginal Museum
South East Queensland's first
Aboriginal Museum and Lan-
guage Centre opened earlier this
month with an exhibition salut-
ing Black Diggers.
Torres News (Thursday Island, Qld. : 1957-2015), Friday 22 September 1995
2000s |
| A farm shed (see Loganholme farm shed near Drews Road 1990s) being demolished, west of Drews Road, Loganholme, Queensland, Australia. The land was redeveloped for housing of the Settlers Lake Estate. Brass razoo |
The Cambodian Buddhist Temple was completed at Marsden in 2005,
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| Vista overlooking the Loganholme Queensland Area. 2011, Brian Westin |
By 2021, Logan City had a population of 345,098.
Various scenes for the Netflix limited series
Boy Swallows Universe (2024 ) were filmed in and around Beenleigh.
Around Logan City
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| The Village of Logan Provisional School, QLD, built 1894, later Teacher Residence |
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| Ikea Logan flags on the store; Queensland, Ikea and Australian flagsBy Kgbo - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Photo of Plantain Road at Shailer Park, Logan City, Queensland, Australia. Shiftchange |
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| Beenleigh Historical Village & Museum, QLD |
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| Tygum Lagoon, Waterford West, QLD |
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| Greenbank State School is located in the suburb of Greenbank, the council of Logan, established 1893 |
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| Logan West’s iconic Wineglass Water Tower was built in 1984, QLD |
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| Logan Village and Districts Community Centre is located on the Logan Village Green. It is made up of six historical buildings, including the Logan Village Historical Museum, Craft Cottage, and Logan City Council Library, QLD |
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| Old St Mark's Anglican Church is a heritage-listed former church and current church hall at 2 Boronia Drive, Daisy Hill, City of Logan, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1901 by W Anthony. |
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| Sundowner Hotel, Beenleigh, QLD, was built by local sugar cane farmer Carl Palm and opened as the Railway Hotel in October 1883. |
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| Beenleigh, QLD, has changed over time |
Things To Do and Places To Go
Logan Village and Districts Community Centre Logan Village and Districts Community Centre is located on the Logan Village Green. It is made up of six historical buildings, including the Logan Village Historical Museum, Craft Cottage, and Logan City Council Library. 24-32 Wharf St, 4207, Logan Village, QLD
South East Queensland Indigenous Languages Centre (Yugambeh Museum Language and Heritage Research Centre)
Beenleigh Historical Village and Museum
Kingston Butter Factory Cultural Precinct
Mayes Cottage
The City of Logan has self-guided public art and heritage trails. You can download or print out the following trail maps:Logan Village to Beenleigh trail guide(PDF, 5MB)
Greenbank to Veresdale trail guide(PDF, 6MB)
Logan Central to Kingston trail guide(PDF, 2MB)
Underwood to Eagleby trail guide(PDF, 2MB)
Browns Plains to Meadowbrook trail guide(PDF, 1MB).
You can also use the interactive trail map to plan your visit.
