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Woodend
Northwest of the main settlement, on a bend of the Bremer, Woodend Pocket in 1848 was the first coal-bearing crown land near Ipswich to be subdivided into small 'coal allotments'. However, the anticipated expansion in mining did not eventuate because the portions were too small to be viable. By 1854 only one mine was being worked by two men. In that year John Ferrett from Dorset, England, opened a coal mine south of the earlier allotments, called the Radstock Pit. Though the mine remained a small operation due to lack of demand and transport difficulties, this has the distinction of being the first successful Ipswich coal mine. Much of the bushland was cleared by the 1860s, one of the contracts being let to George McCormack. The first Ipswich cotton was grown at Woodend by John Panton, the merchant of Claremont, in 1862. To serve the early settlers, Daniel McGrath opened one of the first schools in Ipswich in 1847. During succeeding decades, Woodend became the habitat of middle class families, so that much of its heritage is residential, in addition to its significant education institutions. Ipswich Grammar School and St Mary's Convent School were established in 1863, followed by the first convent in 1864 and its successor in 1884. St Mary's College dates from 1946.