Ebagoola, Queensland
Ebagoola | |
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 Last building standing in Ebagoola | |
  Ebagoola | |
| Coordinates: 14°18′13″S 143°15′54″E / 14.3036°S 143.265°E | |
| Country | Australia |
| State | Queensland |
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| Time zone | UTC+10:00 (AEST) |
| Postcode | 4892 |
Ebagoola is a town in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia.[1] The town is within the locality of Yarraden.[2]
Ebagoola Township and Battery
The town was surveyed in 1900 by James Dickie.[1]
Ebagoola is the site of the Ebagoola Township and Battery, a former mining camp built from 1900 until 1913, which was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 15 May 2006.[3]
Ebagoolah Provisional School opened in 1905. On 1 January 1909, it became Ebagoolah State School. It closed in 1914.[4]
Today, only a single building from the era still stands.
References
- ^ a b "Ebagoola – population centre in Cook Shire (entry 11125)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Queensland Globe". State of Queensland. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Ebagoola Township and Battery (entry 601858)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0