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Old Coach Road
The old stopping station between the the capital of the northern colony of Queensland, Brisbane, and northern New South Wales (the Northern Rivers).
Built in 1872, while horse and cart - mainly run by Australian coach company 'Cobb & Co' - made leave from busy Brisbane, they trundled down past Beenleigh to north of the Nerang river, where a small fishing and logging settlement existed.
From here lay a long journey through alternating and heavily forested terrain down to the likes of Murwillumbah or even Byron Bay/Lismore. So naturally, a small post office was built as a waypoint to accomodate these adventurous travellers going through the relatively unsettled wilderness of South-East Queensland and the Northern Rivers.
Today, it was purchased by the Gold Coast City Council in 2002 and is run as a monuement to the waystation status that the Gold Coast region essentially operated as until the 1920s.
Tallebudgera || Gold Coast History || TAP
Old Coach Road
The old stopping station between the the capital of the northern colony of Queensland, Brisbane, and northern New South Wales (the Northern Rivers).
Built in 1872, while horse and cart - mainly run by Australian coach company 'Cobb & Co' - made leave from busy Brisbane, they trundled down past Beenleigh to north of the Nerang river, where a small fishing and logging settlement existed.
From here lay a long journey through alternating and heavily forested terrain down to the likes of Murwillumbah or even Byron Bay/Lismore. So naturally, a small post office was built as a waypoint to accomodate these adventurous travellers going through the relatively unsettled wilderness of South-East Queensland and the Northern Rivers.
Today, it was purchased by the Gold Coast City Council in 2002 and is run as a monuement to the waystation status that the Gold Coast region essentially operated as until the 1920s.
Tallebudgera || Gold Coast History || TAP