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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
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