New Chum

New Chum was named after the mine developed by James Gulland from 1876. The Red Hill mine was opened by Sydney merchant Robert Towns and Brisbane entrepreneur John Campbell in 1866, but abandoned by the mid-1870s. In 1881 it was resumed by James Gulland of the old Tivoli Mine, who adopted the alternate name of New Chum for the whole area. James Gulland was responsible for the private railway which connected the mining area with the main Brisbane to Ipswich line in the 1880s. He also built twenty-eight four-roomed cottages for his employees at New Chum but occupied Maryville, Joshua Bell’s old home in Ipswich. New Chum was part of Moreton Shire until 1949 when it became a suburb of Ipswich.