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Historic Sarina

Locality: Sarina, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4943 2299

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25.01.2022 Sarina state school building

25.01.2022 A blast from the past in the 70s

23.01.2022 Official opening 90 years ago of St Anne's School in Sarina

23.01.2022 Photo of Broad St. from where National Bank to Bendigo Bank is today.

23.01.2022 1990 Sarina Rotary Anne's having dinner at the Pie Cart - Diner

22.01.2022 An older photo of the diner in Central Street

21.01.2022 How in 1949 Sarina Shire was described in the Australian Blue Book:

19.01.2022 Does anyone have some Koumala photos they can share to help out

19.01.2022 View from the Mill

18.01.2022 100 years of the Sarina RSL

18.01.2022 Did you know - from Aussietowns.com.au Sarina History... * Prior to the arrival of Europeans the area was occupied by members of the Yuwi Aboriginal language group. * In the late 1850s John and James Atherton overlanded sheep to Rockhampton from the New England district of New South Wales. * The first Europeans in the area arrived in 1865 and established a property known as Plane Creek. * In 1869 the surveyor William Wilson named Sarina Inlet. * By the 1880s land in the area was being selected and developed. * In 1894 a sugar mill was built on Plane Creek by local sugar growers. * The Plane Creek mill started operating in 1896 and within a year the town had a blacksmith, a postmaster and a general store. * A primary school was built in 1897. * By 1905 the town had two hotels. * The local Catholic church was consecrated in 1907. * In 1908 the town was renamed Sarina. * The Church of England was consecrated in 1910. * Sarina Shire was created in 1912. * By 1913 Sarina was connected by rail to Mackay. * A Catholic primary school was opened in 1925. * An alcohol distillery (an early example of ethanol from sugar) was opened in 1927. * 1935 saw electricity reach the town. * The town's golf course was built in 1936. * The town's hospital was opened in 1962. * In 1964 the town's high school was opened. * Hay Point Coal Terminal opened in 1971. * Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal opened in 1983. * CSR opened a sugar mill in the town in 1987. * Armstrong Beach was officially named in 1999.

17.01.2022 Road on funnel creek Sarina during1974 floods

17.01.2022 1925 first students at St Anne's Sarina

15.01.2022 Check out other stories in the area too This one is the Sarina robbery

14.01.2022 Police station/court house 1963

11.01.2022 Sarina girl guides camp group and scouts - from Daily Mercury

05.01.2022 An early photo of the Sarina State High School

05.01.2022 SOUTH VIETNAM. A VISIT BY BRIGADIER (BRIG) O. D. JACKSON, DSO (LEFT), TO THE HIGHLANDS OF SOUTH VIETNAM. HE IS TALKING TO 13668 CAPTAIN ARTHUR BARRY (BARRY) PETERSEN OF SARINA, QLD,

02.01.2022 Goonyella Railway Construction Koumala Range QLD 1969/70Taken with old super8mm camera Bit Fuzzy