caboonbah homestead造句

• Caboonbah Homestead remained the headquarters of the Brisbane Valley Historical Society.
• Work on Caboonbah Homestead commenced in late 1889 and was completed during the summer floods of 1890.
• Headstones from Caboonbah homestead cemetery were relocated there after they were threatened by water from the Wivenhoe Dam.
• "' Caboonbah Homestead "'was a heritage-listed Lake Wivenhoe, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia.
• Caboonbah Homestead makes a significant contribution to the Queensland estate, illustrating the principal characteristics of a substantial, late 19th century timber homestead with early 20th century additions.
• Caboonbah Homestead, erected 1889-90, is important in demonstrating the pattern of Queensland's history, being associated with the establishment of the first flood warning station in Queensland in 1893.
• Caboonbah Homestead has a special association with the life and work of Henry Plantagenet Somerset and his wife Katherine Rose McConnel, who lived at Caboonbah from 1890 until Katherine's death in 1935.
• Somerset called this property Caboonbah, derived from the Aboriginal " Cabon gibba " meaning " big rock ", describing the steep, 120 feet high bank of the Brisbane River on which Caboonbah homestead was built.
• The heritage-listed Caboonbah Homestead was located on to the north-west of the lake ( near but not within the locality of Caboonbah ) where it was a tourist attraction operated by the Brisbane Valley Historical Society until the homestead burned down in 2009.
• Following meticulous restoration, the Caboonbah Homestead was opened to the public in 1989 . The society also relocated to the grounds two early 20th century cottages, the 1928 Esk Court House, and a cell block from Esk ( but do not form part of the heritage listing ).
• Caboonbah Homestead has a special association for the local community with the early development of the Caboonbah area, with state politics in the Stanley ( now part of Somerset ) electorate for 16 years, and with the construction of the Somerset dam, one of Queensland's most important mid-20th century projects.