| Kilcoy Queensland |
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| Population: | 3641 [1] |
| Postcode: | 4515 |
| LGA: | Somerset Regional Council |
| State District: | Nanango |
| Federal Division: | Fisher |
Kilcoy is a small farming town and the administrative centre of the Somerset Regional Council Local Government Area in South East Queensland, Australia. Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Postcodes are used in Australia for the purposes of sorting and directing Mail. The Local Government Areas (LGAs of Queensland, Australia are the areas for which particular Local Government authorities generally known as "Councils" Somerset Regional Council is a Local Government Area in Queensland, Australia. State Electoral District is a term used to refer to an electorate within the Lower House or Legislative The division of Nanango is an electoral division in the state of Queensland, Australia. The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions. The Division of Fisher is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. Somerset Regional Council is a Local Government Area in Queensland, Australia. Local Government Area (abbreviated LGA) is a term used in Australia (and especially by the Australian Bureau of Statistics) to refer to areas controlled South East Queensland (SEQ is a region of the state of Queensland in Australia, which contains approximately two-thirds of the state population Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. The township lies on the D'Aguilar Highway, 94 km north west of the state capital, Brisbane, and just to the north of Lake Somerset. The D'Aguilar Highway is a two-lane Highway linking the Bruce Highway near Caboolture with Kingaroy in the state of Queensland, Australia Brisbane ( is the state capital of Queensland. Brisbane is the third most populous city in Australia and the most populous city of Queensland Lake Somerset is an artificial Lake created by the Somerset Dam on the Stanley River in Queensland. Kilcoy Shire covers an area of over 1442 square kilometres. Most residents of Kilcoy are employed servicing the surrounding pastoral area.
Kilcoy claims to be the home of the mythical Yowie, Australia's equivalent of Bigfoot or the Yeti, which is said to live in the hills around Kilcoy. Bigfoot or Sasquatch is alleged to be an Ape -like creature inhabiting remote forests mainly in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada There is a large wooden statue of the creature in town. The last reported Yowie sighting in Kilcoy was in May 2007 by UQ student Daniel Raaen. The University of Queensland (UQ is one of Australia's premier learning and research institutions [2]
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History
Scottish migrants opened up the area in the early 1840s and cleared land to run beef and dairy cattle. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. The first settler was Sir Evan Mackenzie, who named his landholding 'Kilcoy' after his family estate in Scotland. Timber felling and milling was also important in the early development of Kilcoy, which was founded in the 1890s.
The town itself was originally named 'Hopetown' or 'Hopetoun' but renamed 'Kilcoy' after mail for the town continuously became misplaced.
In 1842 on the outskirts of Kilcoy Station owned by MacKenzie, 30-60 Native Aborigines of the Kabi Kabi (or gubi gubi) died from eating flour laced with strychnine or arsenic. The Mackenzies were admonished for this mass killing by attorney-General John Hubert Plunkett (1802 - 1869), who threatened prosecution if an official complaint was lodged. John Hubert Plunkett ( 1 June 1802 &ndash 9 May 1869) was Attorney-General of New South Wales and elected as a member of the Up until the early 1990s Evan Mackenzie, the station owner, was a prime suspect but recent research suggests that he himself was probably not responsible for the massacre, since he was in Sydney at the time. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 Though MacKenzie's involvement was never verified, this incident was mentioned in a select committee in 1861 and repeated by W. Coote in 1867. The English overseer disappeared upon Mackenzie returning. Mackenzie organised the conspiracy of silence to protect the Englishman. This is one of many massacres that were perpetrated by the white settlers of the area.
Books
The book "Moreton Bay Scots 1841-59" by John MacKenzie-Smith, published by Church Activists Press in Virginia, Queensland, Australia in 2000 provides some more detail around the founding of Kilcoy and the people involved.
Notable former residents
References
- ^ Kilcoy Shire Population and Housing Fact Sheet. Merri Rose (born 24 January 1955) was a former Minister in the Beattie government and Member for Currumbin in the Queensland Retrieved on 2008-01-05. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.
- ^ The Sunday Mail, 27 May 2007
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