Hinterland Stories

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Montville Firsts

Posted by Cate Patterson on Mar 3, 2019 This is a history record that everyone can contribute to by either challenging a claim or adding...

Montville – A Brief History

The First People The oral history of the original people of the Blackall Range relates that members of the Jinibara Federation, the Nalbo...

Land’s End – The Vining Family

A Family who shaped early Montville Edward William (Bill) Vining selected Portion 143 V (Survey Plan M37.1168 – Selection No A. F. 2598)...

Horse-Slide Transport now Historic Epic

From Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld.: 1922 – 1954), Friday 26 November 1954, page 5 By T.H.Brown. In the process of...

History of Montville Precinct – School of Arts Hall and Village Green

Early settlement of Montville Timber getters knew of the rich source of cedar in the area before the Colony of Queensland was created in...

Glorious Montville

Brisbane Courier (Qld. 1864 – 1933), Thursday 8 June 1922, page 8 Montville sits on the escarpment SUPERB MOUNTAIN SCENERY PICTURESQUE...

Farming Recollections by Rob Muirhead

Rob Muirhead recalls growing up on his Dad’s Farm I received a rifle for my 12th birthday with the instructions from Dad that “anything I...

Ernest Jones Burnett – an early selector

Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld. 1922 – 1954), Friday 29 March 1940, page 1 Buderim Pioneering Days Recalled. THE LATE...

Early Records of Baroon – pre settlement of Maleny and Montville

Long before the now well-known hinterland town names such as Maleny, Montville and Mapleton there was Boorum (Baroon). Records of its...

Belbury – an Historic Home

The Western Road to Henry Smith’s ‘Eastnor’ 1900 ‘Belbury’ once known as ‘Eastnor’, is again on the market (2018). Part of Montville’s...

Baroon Pocket Part 2 - The first settlers

The history of settlement in Montville lists the Weitemeyers as being the first official residents in 1887. But in fact, one family,...

Annie Clark – A Legacy of Strength and Courage

Annie Phillips previously Williams nee Clark On 7th November 1944 Annie Phillips drew her final earthly breath. She was 84 years, 7...

A Point in Time

Notes taken from the speech by Fiona McGill, Montville’s Australia Day Guest Speaker 2022 by Cate Patterson Fiona studied Anthropology...

A History of Montville Tourism

A talk given to the Montville Chamber of Commerce by Jenny Tatton in July 2018 (slightly adapted) So how did we get from the 1880’s to...

A Gesture of Reconciliation

Aunty Frances Mathyssen, 2019 In her acceptance speech, one of our Australians of the Year, Yorta Yorta elder and teacher, Aunty Frances...

Recollections of Sam Remington

I am a grandson of Richard Proctor Remington, who was reputedly one of the first white settlers on ‘Razorback’ now Montville. My...

Recollections by Richard Haynes

Richard Haynes 1928 Richard Courtenay Haynes was born in Montville on 6 August 1918. Along with his sisters, Kathleen and Marjorie,...

Recollections by Hazel Tully (nee Muirhead)

Hazel was born in Montville in 1914 – the third child of Mr and Mrs Charles Hillicotte Muirhead Hazel Tully nee Muirhead in 1987 at the...

Recollections by Jessie Greenham (nee Muirhead)

Montville in the 1920s Jessie’s grandparents – Early settlers Mr and Mrs Hamilton Muirhead I remember Montville when the access road from...

Montville Place Names – The Other Road

The Story Behind the Name - Western Avenue Cutting the Main Road and Western Avenue Intersection Butts Road First Nation people of the...