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Peak Crossing

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The name refers to the crossing over Purga Creek, near the present-day State School, it was initially called Peak Mountain Crossing but the name was later simplified. One of the first Cobb and Co staging points south of Ipswich was at Peak Crossing.

One of the early roads to the Darling Downs passed through this area. The road started in Ipswich, then went over the One Mile River crossing, past Rockton Road (now called Mt Flinders Road) where the Beehive Inn catered for travellers, then on through Peak Crossing, past Balbi's Inn near present-day Lake Moogerah and up Spicer's Peak Road.

In 1848, William Wilson took up Mt Flinders Run of 40,000 acres and grazed sheep and later cattle. He grew an experimental sample of cotton in 1847 which Rev John Dunmore Lang submitted to mills in England. As new land laws cut up the huge early runs, the area became more closely settled. An early industry was timber getting with mills at Peak Crossing and Rockton.

During the American Civil War in the 1860s, cotton-growing became important throughout the district. The town of Peak Crossing developed around a hotel, store and cotton gin developed by William Watkins in 1869.

John Brown and William Winks were two of the first Europeans to arrive in the area. John Brown purchased the Flinders Run in 1868, arriving with his wife and nine children from Scotland. His farm was called 'Lanton Park' after his homeland. William Winks had the Mt. Flinders Station in 1870.

In 1871 the Peak Mountain School was established and the following year the Flinders Congregational Church was constructed. Ten years later the railway opened which opened the area up for more permanent settlement.

References (offline)Expanded Ipswich Heritage Study (1997)References (online)Pathways of the Pioneers - Boonah

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1997 Design Awards - Ivory's Rock Conference Centre

2001 Design & Heritage Awards Entry - Ivory's Rock Conference Centre Bathrooms

2001 Design & Heritage Awards Entry - Ivory's Rock Conference Centre Campground Bathroom

2002 Design & Heritage Awards Entry - Ivory's Rock Conference Centre, The Pavilion

2002 Design & Heritage Awards Entry - Ivory's Rock Conference Centre, the Pavilion

2002 Design & Heritage Awards Entry - Ivory's Rock Function Centre

Cat in backyard of Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, 1950

Cattle at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, 1961

Cattle in the swamp at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, 1930s

Cattle on Rockdale Farm, with Ivory's Rock in background, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, 1940s

Child with calves and chickens at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, 1920s

Child with dolll and pram, Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, 1930

Children at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, 1929

Children playing with dolls at their home at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, c.1930

Edna Foote beside an Austin A140, at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, 1950

Edna Foote with dolls, at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, c.1927

Edna and Dulcie Foote feeding the chickens at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, ca. 1930

Edna, Del, and Dulcie Foote at their home at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, c.1938

Edna, Dulcie and Del Foote at their home at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, ca. 1930

Family of John P. Brown, Lanton Park, Flinders, near Peak Crossing, Ipswich, c. 1910

Flinders Peak - A Peek at Flinders

Graham Foote during home schooling at Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, c.1947

Histories

Expanded Ipswich Heritage Study, Volume 3, 1997

Ipswich Suburb, Place, and Road Names

Pathways of the Pioneers - Boonah

The Bremer River

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Former Divisions, Shires, Suburbs, & Localities

Suburbs & Localities

Transcriptions

Memories of Peak Crossing and Radford districts, Normanby Shire Council and Moreton Shire Council, an oral history with Dorothy McInnes and Norman Pegg, 1997 (transcription)

Audio

Memories of Peak Crossing and Radford districts, Normanby Shire Council and Moreton Shire Council, an oral history with Dorothy McInnes and Norman Pegg, 1997 (audio)

Documents

Peak Mountain Amateur Turf Club programme, near Ipswich, 1897

Images - Queensland Times

Thought to be Warrill Creek Weir, Peak Crossing, December 1977

Rockdale Farm, Peak Crossing, Ipswich, c,1950

Location

Suburb Postcode4306

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Images - Queensland Times

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