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Greenslopes
Joseph Wecker's farm was known
locally as
'Wecker's green slopes' before that name was used for the subdivision
of the property in the second decade of the twentieth century. This
German immigrant was the earliest known settler in the area. After
farming there for some time he extended his property by buying some
undulating land at the rear of his property from a Reginald Jennings,
and grew lucerne there, calling it his 'green
slopes'
Griffin
Whiteside
Grovely
When John and William Nicholson adopted the name of
GroveleyLodge for their property they acquired there in 1864,
they had in mind Grovely in Wiltshire. On it they established a
vineyard, and they gave some of it for a church. Governor Bowen laid
the foundation stone of the Groveley Church of England, 1867, and
gradually the district around the church came to be known by that name.
Somehow the second e dropped out. The Railway Department gave this name
to the station, 22 June,
1916.
Guanaba
The creek and district make use of the
name of the Aboriginal people who lived where Beenleigh is now situated.
Gunchellan Wharf
It is thought that this area on the
Mary River was named by Charles White after the area from whence he came.
Gundiah
Several Aboriginal meanings have been
given : magic stone, doctor or goodbye.
Gympie
Gympie was the Kabi Kabi
name for a stinging tree which grew prolifically around the Mary River,
and the name was given to one of the river's tributaries, Gympie Creek.
The mulberry-leaved
Dendrocnide moroides has tiny stinging hairs on leaves and
narrow stems. Experience has taught bushwalkers to keep well clear yet
its fleshy berries are edible.
It was along this creek that
James Nash discovered gold in 1867. H had been working the Nanango
field, but there was nothing much more there so he went off on his own
prospecting in the Mary River region. This short, bearded loner of a
man dressed in dirty moleskin trousers, flannel shirt and dusty boots
turned up at the Maryborough Land Commissioner's place, 16 October, and
lodged his claim for the reward being offered by the Queensland
Government for the discovery of a new payable goldfield. The discovery
of gold here saved the young colony from bankruptcy. See
Nashville.
Haden
This was the maiden name of Mrs Paget, the wife of the Minister for Railways.
In the days of early settlement the area was known as Little Gomoron and when
the railway line came through the station was originally called Wahoon , but
after a load of Christmas perishables was delivered to Walloon near Ipswish by
mistake the name was changed to Haden.
Haigslea
The
school was opened, 5 July, 1875, as the Walloon Scrub State School, but
nine years later it was given the German name of Kichheim This
reflected the national origin of many of the district's settlers.
However it was changed during the First World War when anti-German
sentiment ran high to Haigslea after Sir Douglas
Haig, Commander-in-Chief of the British Army fighting against the
Germans.
Hamilton
The Aboriginal name for the area was
Yerrool and a long sandy reach in front of this area was called mooroo-mooroobbin, meaning long nose. The name of Hamilton was first given to a hotel probably built by Gustavus Hamilton, solicitor, of
Toowomba, and later owned by Sam Hamilton. The suburb gained its name from the hotel.
Hampton
When
the railway line to Crows Nest was opened the name given to the rail
stop here was Perseverance Siding, but during the following year the
name Hampton was in use. It is not known why this name was used
although it is assumed that it harked back to a town in Middlesex,
England.
Harlaxton
This suburban area of Toowoomba was named after the residence of
Francis Thomas Gregory , Commissioner of Crown Lands on the Darling Downs
1862-1869. When he built on land acquired from Martin Meldon he named his
house after Harlaxton Manor, a family property in Lincolnshire.
While the railway was being constructed up the range there were so many Irish
immigrants living in this area that it was locally known as Irishtown.
who had named his house after his
birthplace. F
Harlin
John Moore of
Colinton station gave his son the names of William Harlin, and in this we seem to have the clue as to the origin of the township's name.
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