Description100 Mount Crosby Road. Three houses on this road were owned by members of the Wright family, three generations of which operated mines from Purga to north of Maryborough and west to the Darling Downs. Irishman, John Wright arrived in Brisbane in 1867 and worked with Harry Hooper and John Robinson, who were among those who began coal mining in Tivoli in the 1860s. In 1873 Wright began mining independently and founded the Eclipse mine in 1876. Oakland was believed to be built in the 1880s-90s. In 1890 one of the Wright’s sons was killed in a mine accident and in 1893 during the flood Wright’s two eldest sons, five other men and the mine were lost in a disaster at Eclipse. The business would continue.
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