Jimna, Queensland
| Jimna Queensland | |||||||||||||||
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  Jimna | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 26°39′39″S 152°27′53″E / 26.66083°S 152.46472°ECoordinates: 26°39′39″S 152°27′53″E / 26.66083°S 152.46472°E | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 4515 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Somerset Region | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Nanango | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Blair | ||||||||||||||
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Jimna is a small town and rural locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia.[1][2]
History
The name Jimna is believed to be an Aboriginal word djimna meaning place of leeches.[1][2]
The first Jimna Post Office opened on 1 July 1868 and closed in 1879. A receiving office was open from 1891 to 1909, and from 1925 until the second Jimna Post Office opened on 1 July 1927. This closed in 1981.[3]
Monsildale Provisional School opened on 2 June 1913. In 1923, the school was moved and renamed Foxlowe Provisional School. On 25 June 1926 it was renamed Jimna Provisional School. On 1 October 1934, it was upgraded to a State School. It was mothballed at the end of 2006 and closed on 31 December 2009. (In about 1941, a separate Monsildale State School was opened but closed about 1961.)[4][5][6]
Commercial loggers Hancock and Gore moved their sawmill from Monsildale to what would become Jimna in 1922. The sawmill was burnt down by fire in 1947.[7]
The state government established a hoop pine nursery at Jimna in 1935. Jimna hall was opened in 1934 and the school, still in use today, was opened the same year[7] When sawmilling contracted in the mid 1970s the town's population reduced significantly.[7]
Heritage listings
Jimna has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
- Kilcoy-Murgon Road: Jimna Fire Tower[8]
- 4 Tip Road: former Jimna Single Men's Barracks[9]
References
- 1 2 "Jimna (town) (entry 17229)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
- 1 2 "Jimna (locality) (entry 44876)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
- ↑ Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
- ↑ "Opening and closing dates of Queensland Schools". Queensland Government. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
- ↑ Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN 978-1-921171-26-0
- ↑ "Agency ID5357, Jimna State School". Queensland State Archives. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- 1 2 3 Environmental Protection Agency (Queensland) (2000). Heritage Trails of the Great South East. State of Queensland. pp. 162–163. ISBN 0-7345-1008-X.
- ↑ "Jimna Fire Tower (entry 601814)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ↑ "Jimna Single Men's Barracks (former) (entry 602685)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 12 July 2013.