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Centenary Suburbs Historical Society

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Centenary Suburbs Historical Society

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    • History Pre-Suburban Period (until 1962)
    • History Suburban Period (1962 and later)
      • Place Name Origins – Centenary Suburbs and Surrounds
    • Natural and Historical Features
    • Broad Timeline of European Settlement and Land Usage
    • Daily Life – Yesteryear
    • History of Localities
      • Rocks Riverside Park and environs
      • Sinnamon Farm Heritage Precinct
      • Direct Factory Outlet/Jindalee Hotel/Coles locality
      • History of Jindalee Creek
      • Wolston Creek Bushland Reserve
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      • When River was Roadway
      • Pastoralists of Brisbane Town’s Fringe
      • Thomas Boyland – an adaptive man
      • Brisbane Spreads West
    • Jindaleaders
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      • Jindalee
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      • 19th Century Pioneers of Seventeen Mile Rocks district
      • Wolston Estate – 19th Century
      • 20th Century Pre-suburban Residents/Pioneer Descendants
      • Pre-Suburban Scenery
      • Early Farm Houses
      • Farming Era Scenes & Activities
      • Seventeen Mile Rocks State School
      • Seventeen Mile Rocks Methodist (later Uniting) Church
      • The Seventeen-Mile Rocks
      • Early Industry
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    • 2013 Flood
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      • ANZAC Day 2014
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Daily Life – Yesteryear

  1.  Calves Go To School
  2. Housekeeping Pioneer Style
  3. Postal Communications Services
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