Where is chinchilla in queensland

Try your luck fossicking for petrified wood or wander the shady tree-lined main street. Visit nearby country townships of Brigalow, named after the local brigalow trees and Kogan with its public artworks and sculptures that have added vital history to the local area. Chinchilla Town Map. Visitor Information Centres. Check out the melon capital of Australia — start with a selfie with The Big Melon, continue on with a stroll down the Camphor Laurel tree-lined main street and finish at the Chinchilla Weir — a freshwater playground.

Discover an old world at the Chinchilla Historical Museum and experience the town just as it was in its pioneering days. Experience Western Downs and enjoy family time.

Try your hand at fossicking or pitch a tent, drop a line and roast a marshmallow. The fish are always biting in Chinchilla, when you know where to go.

Set up camp along the banks of the weir and cast off to hook a Murray cod, perch, or catfish and while away the afternoon. Visit the Lapunyah Art Gallery and explore contemporary and traditional artwork across their two gallery spaces. A dairy factory was opened in next to Charleys Creek, producing Coronation brand butter. In the Chinchilla Shire see separate entry was created by severance from Wambo Shire which was centred at Dalby. Shire chambers were built in Chinchilla in After World War I the Chinchilla public hospital was built and a convent school and a soldier's memorial hall were opened , The town's reticulated electricity was turned on from the dairy factory's generator in Town water and sewerage, however, were delayed until the postwar years.

A modern picture theatre was opened in , a curtain-opener for the prosperous s which saw an Olympic swimming pool , a high school, new shire offices and a new memorial hall Town water was finally addressed in with the building of the Chinchilla weir on the Condamine River; the weir also supplies irrigation. A sense of Chinchilla's history was formed in the s when the first school building, a slab farm cottage, a village hall and farm implements were brought together in a pioneer museum.

The agricultural and pastoral society had its first annual shows in , the year the dairy factory opened. For 60 years dairy produce was a feature of the show, a high point occurring in when a new dairy factory was built. Dairying faded by the s, replaced by grazing, cereals and, with the benefit of irrigation, grapes, watermelons, rockmelons and strawberry growing. A biennial event is Chinchilla's melon festival.

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