Where is springsure queensland

Set Springsure as my home location. Map of Springsure in Queensland showing Emerald highlighted in purple. Click on the name of a place to go to the Bonzle page for that place. For other clicks on the map, select what click action you want below, then click on the map where you want that action performed.

Sign In Not a member? Join now! Click here to search picture captions and descriptions. Position within Australia. Your location. Places last visited. Your screen size. Map Includes. Submit website. Springsure, a rural town on the Dawson Highway, is km west of Gladstone. The town is situated in undulating country over-looked by mountain ranges. Despite these explorers' reports, pastoral settlement did not occur until the late s, when the Comet River station, north-east of Springsure, was taken up.

Further settlement quickly followed, and by a Springsure police district and a rudimentary township were defined. An improved road to Springsure across the Expedition Range was constructed in Between and Springsure gained a school, a courthouse, a hospital and a school of arts in a rented building. The Australian handbook also recorded Presbyterian and Catholic churches, three hotels and a bank.

The population was approaching people. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Springsure is a very typical and rather charming Queensland country town nestled in below the Capricorn Highlands with the local landmark Mount Zamia, of which Virgin Rock is the most prominent feature, looming above the town.

It is located 66 km south of Emerald and km from Brisbane via Rockhampton. The area around Springsure was first explored by Ludwig Leichhardt during his journey through central Queensland.

Leichhardt eventually reached Port Essington in the Northern Territory and, upon his return to Sydney in , his glowing reports of the area around the Comet River prompted graziers to move into the area. Some kind of town sprang up at Springsure as early as although it wasn't surveyed and gazetted until The Aboriginal resistance to the encroachment of Europeans was courageous and violent. At Cullin-la-ringo north-west of the town a group of Kairi warriors killed nineteen people in the largest recorded massacre of whites in Australian history.

It is likely that the massacre was prompted by a combination of frustration at the loss of land and as an act of revenge for the atrocities which were being committed with monotonous regularity by both the whites who were eager to rid themselves of the Aborigines and the dreaded native police who had stolen tribal women. It is still possible to see the mass grave in which the victims were buried but the residents of Mount Helmut station discourage visitors because of a bad record of disturbing livestock and being careless with rubbish and fire.

Ask at Old Rainworth Station for more details. The massacre at Cullin-la-ringo occurred before any kind of permanent building could be constructed. All buildings on the site post-date the killings. It is therefore worth visiting Rainworth Fort, which is located 10 km south-west of the town near the Wealwandangie Road, which was constructed in a year after the Cullin-la-Ringo massacre. It is not clear whether, as is suggested by the name 'fort', it was built to resist Aboriginal attack.

Certainly it was designed as a storehouse not a home. The diary of Jesse Gregson, part-owner and manager of the station, states that the building was designed as a store house.

The name 'fort' has grown as a legend. By submitting your email you are agreeing to Fairfax Media's terms and conditions and privacy policy. It is ironic that the massacre at Cullin-la-Ringo was probably as a result of an attack made on the local Aborigines by Jesse Gregson who was manager of Rainworth Station.

The local Aborigines had 'stolen' sheep they probably thought they had a right to them as when Gregson arrived at their camp they invited him to share their meal and Gregson responded by shooting a number of them. Cattle duffers, the Kenniff brothers overlanded to Springsure in after being convicted of stock stealing in northern New South Wales.