In the beginning there was Brisbane ......
Look at the slideshow of Brisbane in the early days.
How did the Kenmore area begin?
In 1842, when the convict settlement stopped at Morton Bay, a huge area west of Brisbane was all one cattle run. A coal mine was started at Moggill by John Williams.
In the 1860's new settlers came to the areas known as Indooroopilly and Moggill and districts within this known as Fig Tree Pocket and Brookfield were opened up for more settlement. The earliest crop farming took place along the river at Fig Tree Pocket, mainly maize, potatoes and sugar cane. Brookfield was first opened up by timber getting, pine logs being drawn by bullock teams along the present course of Rafting Ground Road, formed into rafts at the mouth of Moggill Creek (Present Rafting Ground Park) and sent to timbermills in South Brisbane. The journey of the logs to Brisbane was said to have taken a week because they could only move on low tides. The area was important for supplying timber to Brisbane as it grew and expanded.
Kenmore Park
Early in the 1880's a man named Andrew Todd bought 100 acres of land in the centre of the present district of Kenmore and named his property "Kenmore Park" after his home town Kenmore in Scotland. It is not known when the house was built but it is thought to have been in the early 1880's. He gave a half-acre of his land to the Presbyterian Church where the first Presbyterian Church was built. The area after that became known as Kenmore.
Kenmore continued down the years as a rural community, but always attractive with wooded slopes, grassland and cultivated areas.
The Kenmore State school opened in 1904. Prior to this there had been small private schools, the earliest being opened in 1872 in a small building, long since disappeared, near Moggill Creek. After this there was another in a hall which existed on a site opposite the present school. Kenmore state school was a one teacher for many years, one of the earliest teachers being Miss B.L. Palmer, Mistress of the school for quite a number of years.
Kenmore continued down the years as a rural community, but always attractive with wooded slopes, grassland and cultivated areas.
The Kenmore State school opened in 1904. Prior to this there had been small private schools, the earliest being opened in 1872 in a small building, long since disappeared, near Moggill Creek. After this there was another in a hall which existed on a site opposite the present school. Kenmore state school was a one teacher for many years, one of the earliest teachers being Miss B.L. Palmer, Mistress of the school for quite a number of years.