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Taroom is a small town in the Australian state of Queensland . It is located in the Banana Shire on the Leichhardt Highway , 484 kilometers from Brisbane , 302 kilometers from Rockhampton and 341 kilometers from Toowoomba . In 2011 Taroom had 533 inhabitants.
Surname
The name Taroom comes from the Aborigines and refers to the fruit-bearing trees that grow in the Taroom area. The city was founded on a camp site of the early settlers and was originally called Bonners Knob .
history
The Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt came to the area of the city on his first expedition to Australia around November 1844 and carved signs into a 300 year old and now listed Coolibah tree. The tree stands in the center of the village. Leichhardt's original characters in the tree bark are no longer available, but have been documented. After Leichhardt passed through and his later report on the agriculturally usable land, the European settlement took place.
The place originated at Stoney Crossing on the Dawson River . In 1856 a post office was opened in Taroom. In 1857 the Hornet Bank Massacre took place at the Hornet Bank Station , 40 kilometers from Taroom , in which the Yeeman Aborigines killed eleven Europeans. The Yeeman retaliated for being given a pudding poisoned with strychnine . The tribe was then massively persecuted, especially by a survivor, and decimated considerably in the process.
In 1858 the Leichhardt Hotel was opened in Taroom and a courthouse was completed. By 1860 there were three hotels in Taroom; a school opened in 1870. The Taroom Racing Club was founded in 1874 and then several dairy farmers settled down. Two churches were built in 1896, one Anglican and one Catholic. In 1899 a hospital was completed.
In 1920 a school building was built that housed both a state and a Catholic school. Buildings burned down in Taroom in 1944 and modern buildings were constructed in 1947 and a modern school building was constructed from 1956 to 1959.
economy
The place is a center of the meat industry in Queensland. Other significant economic activities are the timber industry and wheat cultivation.
Taroom is located in a sedimentary basin , the Surat Basin , in which there are large coal deposits. Three kilometers from Taroom there is a coal mine, the Taroom Coal Project .
tourism
In Taroom today there are several shops, a hospital, sports facilities, a swimming pool, a historical museum, the Leichhardt Hotel and Motel as well as a campsite.
There are several listed buildings in the village. Tourists also come to Taroom to view and take photos of the Leichhardt Tree . There is also the Ludwig Leichhardt Memorial in Taroom , a memorial stone with three bronze plaques on it. The memorial stone is located in Ludwig Leichhardt Park on Yaldwyn Street, east of the Leichhardt Tree .
For more than 100 years, the Taroom Show Society has held a city festival, the Taroom Show .
Near Taroom are the Isla Gorge National Park , Palmgrove National Park , Precipice National Park and Expedition National Park .
Floods
On December 27, 2010, the place was inundated by the waters of the Dawson River to the north, west and south. The river reached a height of 10.28 meters, one meter higher than during the flood in 1956.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Climate statistics for Australian locations (TAROOM POST OFFICE). Australian Government - Bureau of Meteorology , accessed November 27, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Taroom (L) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
- ↑ heritage-register.ehp.qld.gov.au ( memento of the original from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Taroom Tree , accessed August 5, 2013.
- ↑ a b c queenslandplaces.com : Taroom , in English, accessed August 5, 2013.
- ↑ textqueensland.com.au : Arthur Laurie: Hornet Bank massacre, October 27, 1857 , 1957, in English, accessed November 6, 2013.
- ↑ dsdip.gov.au : North Surat. Taroom Coal Project , accessed August 5, 2013.
- ↑ brisbanetimes.com.au : Taroom - Sleep , November 25, 2008, in English, accessed August 5, 2013.
- ↑ taroomshowsociety.com ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Taroom Show , accessed August 5, 2013.
