Overhead traffic bridge linking Chinchilla Street and Heeney Street in Chinchilla around 1930
- Title
- Overhead traffic bridge linking Chinchilla Street and Heeney Street in Chinchilla around 1930
- Description
- The overhead traffic bridge was erected in 1915 (Description supplied with photograph) Chinchilla is a thriving town in the western Darling Downs, 295km NW of Brisbane on the Warrego Highway. Ludwig Leichhardt named the area in 1844 after jinchilla, the local Aboriginal name for cypress pines. Grain-growing is the traditional industry, as well as cattle, sheep, pigs, timber and more recently, grapes, cotton and watermelon. The cactoblastis insect was introduced to eradicate the prickly pear cactus infestation and the Cactoblastis Memorial Hall has been erected at Boonarga 8km east of Chinchilla. (Explore Australia 2003, Penguin Books Australia Ltd., 2002)
- Description
- Chinchilla is a thriving town in the western Darling Downs, 295km NW of Brisbane on the Warrego Highway. Ludwig Leichhardt named the area in 1844 after jinchilla, the local Aboriginal name for cypress pines. Grain-growing is the traditional industry, as well as cattle, sheep, pigs, timber and more recently, grapes, cotton and watermelon. The cactoblastis insect was introduced to eradicate the prickly pear cactus infestation and the Cactoblastis Memorial Hall has been erected at Boonarga 8km east of Chinchilla. (Explore Australia 2003, Penguin Books Australia Ltd., 2002)
- Creator
- Unknown
- Subject
- bridges
- Subject
- overbridges
- Subject
- railway lines
- Subject
- streets
- Subject
- 1930
- Chinchilla - Bridges - Overhead Traffic Bridge, ca
- Subject
- Chinchilla (Qld.)
- Publisher
- John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
- Image number
- 4468
- Format
- copy print : b&w
- Managed by
- Item is held by John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
- Collection or series
- 78-5-3
- Date or place
- Chinchilla, Queensland
- Date or place
- ca. 1930
- Rights
- This image is free of copyright restrictions. Permission to use this image for any purpose other than private study and research may attract a fee for reproduction rights. For further information please view http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/legals.htm
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