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Chuwar
Named by surveyor James Warner, this name first appeared on a plan in October 1848. Unfortunately, the page of his notebook explaining the reason for the name is missing. It is an Aboriginal name with some local significance. It is pronounced chew-war, the last syllable pronounced as in “war”, a military event.
A township was surveyed at Chuwar at the corner of Junction and Mt Crosby Roads in 1886 but it never developed.
Coal mines were operated in this general area. Most of these were in the suburb of Tivoli but some on the north-eastern side would now be considered within the suburbs of Chuwar/Karalee. These included Rossend on Portion 1, Parish of Chuwar which opened in the 1870s. It was later sold and renamed Haighmoor. The coal from these mines was suitable for coking and several including Haighmoor built and operated coke ovens. Other mines in this area included Boxwood on Portion 124 which opened from 1884 to 1899.
The Tivoli Line was built from Ipswich Railway Workshops in 1898 to service coal mines in this area and a tramway was built in 1912 to extend the line to supply coal to the Mt Crosby Pumping Station. The path of this line can still be discerned through much of Tivoli, Chuwar, Kholo and Mt Crosby.
References (offline)Ipswich Heritage Study (1992)