46-732: Bladensburg can mean: Australia [ edit ] Bladensburg National Park , a former pastoral station and homestead in Queensland United States [ edit ] Bladensburg, Maryland , a town in Prince George's County Bladensburg, Iowa , an unincorporated community in Wapello County Bladensburg, Ohio , an unincorporated community in Knox County Topics referred to by
92-536: A Catholic church in 1888. Against this was the state in which the Church of England in Winton then found itself. By 1890, its services were still being held in an all-purpose hall whose owner, William Steele, had the licence for it revoked that year, which was understandably an unwelcome hardship for the town's Anglicans . In 1889, work was in progress on Winton's first artesian bore . By mid-August, it had reached
138-417: A church service in the billiard room at the hotel , after a blue blanket had been thrown over the pool table and a red one had been draped over the cue rack. William Corfield himself was later chosen to present the clergyman with remuneration in the form of "a purse of sovereigns ". This presentation did not go off without incident, however. One local squatter caused himself quite a bit of pain – and
184-567: A drought struck within a few years. The town's true birth came with a sequence of events, both natural and manmade, which gave rise to one new town in Central West Queensland, but also sowed the seeds for another's failure. Robert Allen, a former police sergeant, left Aramac about 1875 and moved west to the Pelican Waterholes (about 1,600 metres (0.99 mi) west of the town's current site), where he set up
230-598: A chemist, saddler, besides other branches of industry, we felt that we were being drawn perilously within the influences of civilisation and its drawbacks." By 1884, Winton and much of the surrounding area were in the grip of a serious drought that brought many people hardship. It had, however, ended by 1886. By this time, Winton had a weekly newspaper , the Winton Herald . It was owned by D. H. Maxwell, who had founded it in 1885 after coming from Aramac. Maxwell later died in an angling accident near Winton in 1894. He
276-598: A depth of about 430 feet (or 131 m). Tenders were called that same year for another bank, this time the Bank of New South Wales . The same article mentioned that founding townsman Thomas Lynett had had to pay a fine of £1, along with 9s in costs (after having been summoned before the Police Magistrate), for a breach of the Licensing Act. St Patrick's Catholic Church was built in 1887. The timber church
322-821: A group of men and animals from the Condamine River in the Darling Downs , bound for the Swan River Colony across the continent. He was last seen on 3 April 1848 at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, still on the Darling Downs. His whereabouts thereafter have never been known, but he and his men are believed to have met their end in the Great Sandy Desert . This expedition may have brought Leichhardt near Winton's future site. William Landsborough undertook extensive exploration of both
368-439: A shop and a public house the next year. The heavy rains that same year, however, brought Allen a great deal of woe, and he even "was compelled by floods to remain two days on the wall-plate of his building." When the flooding had abated somewhat, Allen shifted what was left of his business to Winton's current site. Robert Allen is thus held to be the town's founder. Winton's entrenchment as this pioneering region's business hub
414-450: A shop at Collingwood, if he deemed the newly laid out town to be suitable upon his inspection. Apparently, though, he did not, deciding that the land there was too prone to flooding. He turned back, and eventually, he, Corfield, Fitzmaurice and Robert Allen, who was already at the more easterly site, agreed to establish a centre east of Corfield's original destination of Collingwood. This was Winton's beginning. Collingwood, however, whose site
460-464: A small rented building. Their equipment was rather primitive, though, and they had to make do with a hefty log and a chain as a police lockup. This was not always good enough: One day Feltham went down to the store, leaving a prisoner chained up. Shortly afterwards he was surprised when he saw his prisoner (who was a very powerful man) marching into the public house carrying the log on his shoulder, and call for drinks. It took three men to get him back to
506-450: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bladensburg National Park Bladensburg is a national park in Shire of Winton , Queensland , Australia. It includes an area once occupied by a sheep station called Bladensburg Station . Bladensburg lies in the area of what was once Koa tribal territory and, on white settlement,
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#1732773055349552-757: Is situated predominantly in the Goneaway Tablelands subregion of the Channel Country bioregion, but also contains some of the Mitchell Grass Downs bioregion. The original Bladensburg homestead, which was probably transported to the site some time in the 1910s, houses the park's visitor information centre today. Birds common to the area include the painted firetail , rufous-crowned emu-wren and rufous-throated honeyeater . The park contains dinosaur fossils as well as Aboriginal story places and ceremonial grounds. Skull Hole,
598-414: The thief , and the correspondent commented "This game has been going on here for a very long time," perhaps meaning to suggest police complicity in this and other crimes. More seriously, even though there was no real loss, was this incident, mentioned in the same report: Somebody amused himself at the expense of the senior-constable of police, telling him that the shearers and all union men would rush
644-657: The Diamantina basin, and maps still identify it by that name today. Corfield made it clear where he meant to settle: Our destination was Collingwood , more widely known as the Conn Waterhole, where the Government Surveyor had laid out a township situated about 40 miles [64 km] west of Winton. Another man of Corfield's acquaintance, named Thomas Lynett, had left Townsville for the same destination with backing from Burns, Philp and Co. to set up
690-558: The Doveridge No. 4 and Vindex No. 1 North runs. The North Gregory Hotel was established in 1879. In 1899 it burnt down for the first time, but a new North Gregory Hotel was up and running by the following 1900. In 1879, Julius von Berger, who had fled Schleswig-Holstein to escape Prussian rule, became the town's first dispensing chemist ( pharmacist ). In 1880, Sub-Inspector Fred Murray and Sergeant Feltham came to town from Blackall and set up Winton's first police station in
736-548: The Home Secretary asking for police protection. He also described another problem – drug abuse : When I returned Winton was entirely out of liquor, and Allen did a great business in selling bottles of painkiller as a substitute. It was laughable to see men take a bottle out of their pocket, saying, "Have a nip, mate, it's only five shillings a bottle?" Winton was gazetted as a township on 12 July 1879, describing it as 2 square miles (5.2 km ) resumed from
782-474: The Western and Diamantina rivers in the 1860s, and it seems likely that he might have found himself at Winton's future site at least once, for it lies on the former. In 1866, Landsborough led another expedition up the Diamantina, which would have taken him to within 60 km of the actual site, albeit not right to it. The first European settlers in the area came in 1866, but many did not stay very long because
828-492: The area are sheep and cattle raising. The town was named in 1876 by postmaster Robert Allen, after his place of birth, Winton, Dorset . Winton was the first home of the airline Qantas . In the 2021 census , the locality of Winton had a population of 856 people. The traditional owners of the Winton area, the Koa people , consider Bladensburg National Park area (near Winton) to be a special part of their traditional country, and
874-476: The county wrong. Bournemouth is actually in the ceremonial county of Dorset, but Corfield named the historic county of Hampshire, which also includes Bournemouth. It is clear, however, that Corfield correctly identified Allen's birthplace. Business in those earliest days of the town's existence was hindered by the lack of a local bank . The nearest one was in Aramac, some 400 kilometres (250 mi) away. There
920-476: The date across the stamps , the post mark was made, and the stamps cancelled. This was found to be very slow and unsatisfactory. Allen was asked to propose a name, and he suggested that the P.O. should be called "Winton." This is the name of a suburb of Bournemouth , Hampshire , England, and Allen's native place. Even though Bournemouth is nowadays generally held to be in Dorset , Corfield did not quite get
966-601: The first sale of government land, one result of which was the acquisition of Thomas Lynett's property by the Queensland National Bank , thus giving Winton its first bank. The bank began business right away in Lynett's old coffee room, and pulled down his building to make way for something that would be more suitable for a bank. A man named Morgan started a blacksmith's shop in Winton after having worked at Ayrshire Downs Station. In 1881, Thomas McIlwraith , who
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#17327730553491012-434: The locally well known story of how Winton got its current name: The original name for the town – now known as Winton – was Pelican Water-holes. Bob Allen, the first resident, whom I have mentioned, acted as post-master . The mail service was a fortnightly one, going west to Wokingham Creek, thence via Sesbania to Hughenden . There was no date stamp supplied to the office, but by writing "Pelican Water-holes" and
1058-533: The lock-up. Cobb & Co 's stagecoaches were serving Winton by 1880 after having bought up a number of mail routes in Queensland. Robert Arthur Johnstone also arrived in Winton in 1880 to become the town's first police magistrate. He had been in the Australian native police and had been an associate of George Elphinstone Dalrymple in the latter's exploratory work. In 1880 Johnstone also conducted
1104-518: The mayor of Winton, had returned to Queensland in 1878 after suffering a bout of malaria , and wrote of his experiences as a pioneer in Central West Queensland in his book Reminiscences of Queensland 1862–1899 , published in 1921: Passing through Townsville , I met [Robert] Fitzmaurice, who told me that carrying had fallen away between Cooktown and the Palmer , and that he had left that district. He suggested that I should join with him in carrying to
1150-408: The other men at the presentation quite a bit of laughter – when, during a prayer upon presentation of the gift, he knelt down in prayer only to wound his rear end with his own long-necked spurs. The clergyman, however, simply carried on with his prayer of thanks. In 1883, Winton's first district court was opened when Judge Miller and Crown Prosecutor Real came to town. By about this time, there
1196-722: The park is also important to the Maiawali and Karuwali people. Jirandali (also known as Yirandali, Warungu, Yirandhali) is an Australian Aboriginal language of North-West Queensland , particularly the Hughenden area. The language region includes the local government area of the Shire of Flinders , including Dutton River , Flinders River , Mount Sturgeon, Caledonia , Richmond , Corfield , Winton, Torrens, Tower Hill, Landsborough Creek, Lammermoor Station, Hughenden, and Tangorin . Skull Hole, on Surprise Creek, at Bladensburg Station about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Winton,
1242-615: The position, and agreed to build in line with the others. This formed the base upon which Mr. Surveyor Jopp laid out the township afterwards. "Mr. Surveyor Jopp" was George Keith Jopp, a surveyor based in Blackall . His name was to be found on the "List of Surveyors licensed to act under the provisions and for the purposes of 'The Real Property Acts of 1861 and 1877'", which was published in Wright's Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer in 1881. Corfield's book also tells
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1334-504: The site of the 1870s massacre of Aboriginal people , is preserved. Access to the park is by 16 km of road from Winton . Camping is permitted beside Surprise Creek. No water is available. Winton, Queensland Winton is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland , Australia. It is 177 kilometres (110 mi) northwest of Longreach . The main industries of
1380-448: The town of Winton . The park features grassland plains, river flats, sandstone ranges and flat-topped mesas. The main watercourse in the park is the often dry Surprise Creek. During floods the creek becomes a braided channel . The landscape to the south of the park has dissected tablelands with mesas and buttes and to the far south are flat sand plains. The park is now a protected area containing areas of high biodiversity . It
1426-555: The town. The senior-constable rushed away in hot haste to the barracks, and ordered the police to get Martinis and revolvers in good going order, so as to shoot the unionists down. The tensions between the shearers and their employers would soon come to a head, and this incident showed just how tense the situation had already become in Winton. Meanwhile, there was Ashton's Circus to enjoy. It came to this far-flung town in September 1890 and besides its regular performances, also did
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1472-562: The western country, and added that he had been informed by a squatter that there was a good opening for a store at the Conn Waterhole, on the Diamantina River. This is about forty miles [60 km] down the Western River from where Winton now is. The Conn Waterhole to which Corfield referred is a body of water some 55 kilometres (34 mi) down the Western River from Winton. It is the northernmost permanent waterhole in
1518-442: Was also a doctor in town, who sometimes had to deal with typhoid fever patients. Tenders were sought for building a hospital in Winton late in 1882. It seems, however, that the doctor tendered his resignation only three years later. A correspondent reported not long thereafter "Doctor Van Someron is to be our new surgeon, and I trust that we shall be able to keep him longer with us than his predecessors." This suggests that Winton
1564-492: Was also a drought then. Building materials had to be brought in from even farther away, for there was not a great deal of wood to be had in the Channel Country. Corfield travelled all the way to Townsville on Queensland's east coast to fetch them in. Law enforcement was also as non-existent as one might expect it to be in an early town in Central West Queensland. Corfield described that problem, too: At this time Winton
1610-419: Was designed by Rooney Brothers . In 1890, a local correspondent sang the praises of Winton's hospital and was clearly pleased at the staff there. "Winton is at last blessed with a good doctor," he declared. It was also in 1890 that trouble was brewing in Winton, and indeed in other parts of Australia. One report mentioned a robbery in which one man was relieved of £30 while the police seemed unable to catch
1656-400: Was found drowned 12 miles [19 km] from town. A school was being discussed in Winton by a school committee in 1885. Winton State School opened on 10 August 1885, despite the correspondent's misgivings about the bureaucracy involved. Pugh’s Queensland Almanac, Law Calendar, Directory, and Coast Guide for 1885 listed Winton's local professionals, including Julius von Berger, who
1702-469: Was listed twice for being both a shopkeeper and the innkeeper at the Royal Mail Hotel. The North Gregory Hotel was run by William Brown Steele by this time. He had bought it from William Henry Corfield after Corfield had bought his partner Robert Fitzmaurice's share of that business out after Fitzmaurice had returned from a six-month trip to Sydney to see about his failing eyesight. The prognosis
1748-486: Was not considered a choice location in the 1880s, at least not among those of the medical profession. By 1883, Winton was developing into a proper town with economic activity that was of benefit to all the settlers, both urban and rural, in the region. This would have struck most at the time as a great boon, but in William Corfield's wry assessment of Winton's progress: "Now that we had two banks, four hotels,
1794-480: Was not good – Fitzmaurice was almost blind when he returned to Winton – and so he decided to sell up and leave town. Corfield, though, had no great interest in running a hotel and so sought out a buyer, and this turned out to be Steele. In 1886, luxuriant grass growth furnished fodder not only for livestock, but annoyingly also for wildfires . Several nearby stations were stricken, among them Vindex, Elderslie and Ayrshire Downs. Plans were being made to build
1840-407: Was now joined by another pharmacist named A. Hurworth. The hospital's surgeon (also described in the almanac as the "Medical Man") was Dr. Wilson. The name Morgan by this time no longer figured among the town's blacksmiths ("J. Long, Ryan & Jensen"). T. B. Feltham had two mentions in the almanac for being both the bookseller-stationer and the tobacconist, and likewise founding townsman Thomas Lynett
1886-450: Was secured only by a quirk of fate, as William Henry Corfield's written record makes clear. He and some acquaintances set out to do business in an Outback town that had been surveyed and laid out by the Queensland colonial government, only to decide upon arrival in the district that it would be a better idea to found a town somewhat further east near the Pelican Waterholes, which was to become Winton. William Henry Corfield (1843–1927), later
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1932-399: Was taken over to run a sheep station, known as Bladensburg Station. This was the site of the alleged Bladensburg massacre , in which around 200 Aboriginal people were killed in c. 1872 at Skull Hole, on the head of Mistake Creek. The 84,900 ha (210,000 acres) of national park were declared in 1984. The park is 1,152 km (716 mi) northwest of Brisbane , and just south of
1978-405: Was the government's choice, never truly took root, and by 1900, it was a ghost town . At the Winton site, Corfield, Fitzmaurice, Lynett and Allen then discussed moving Allen's building northwards somewhat, back from the Western River on higher ground. Corfield wrote about the outcome: We offered to do the work without cost, but Allen and Lynett decided to remain where they were. We had to accept
2024-538: Was the rendezvous of some of the worst characters of the west; fights were frequent on the then unformed streets. The rowdies threatened to take the grog in the store, and as there were no police nearer than Aramac, I deemed it best to dispose of all the liquor to Allen, the local publican, who jumped at the chance to obtain a supply. A few residents formed themselves into a vigilance committee . The late Mr. J. A. Macartney passed through to visit his property, Bladensburg Station , and seeing how things were, wrote to
2070-602: Was the site of a massacre of Aboriginal people in 1877. The Koa people have lodged an application to the Federal Court to have their native title legally recognised. This application (or "claim") was registered on 28 September 2015, by the National Native Title Tribunal . In one of Australia's greatest mysteries, the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt set off on an expedition with
2116-469: Was then Premier of Queensland and who would be knighted the following year, passed through Winton. His destination was Ayrshire Downs. Nevertheless, the town's whole population turned out, at night, at a waterhole almost 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from town to meet him and his wife. In 1882, a visiting clergyman, the first of any denomination , visited Winton. On the Sunday while he was in town, he held
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