Taroom, Queensland

Taroom is a small town that lies at the Leichhardt Highway. It is 484 kilometers from Brisbane, 302 km from Rockhampton and 341 km from Toowoomba. The city in Queensland, Australia, located in the Shire of Banana. Taroom had 2011 585 inhabitants in the year.

Name

The name comes from the Taroom Aboriginal and refers to the fruit-bearing trees that grow in the area of Taroom. The city was founded at a camp of the early settlers and was originally called Bonners Knob.

History

The Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt came on his first expedition to Australia November 1844 in the area of the city and carved characters in a roughly 300 years old and listed Coolibah tree one. The tree stands in the center. Leichhardt's original character in the bark are no longer available. They are, however, been documented. After the passage of Leichhardt and his subsequent report on the arable land was the European colonization.

The town was at Stoney Crossing the Dawson River. 1856 a post office was opened in Taroom. 1857 was held at the Hornet Bank station, 40 kilometers from Taroom, the Hornet Bank massacre held in which eleven Europeans were killed by the Aborigines of Yeeman. The Yeeman retaliated that they had been given a poisoned with strychnine pudding. Subsequently, the strain was severely persecuted, especially by a survivor, and thereby greatly decimated.

The Leichhardt Hotel was opened in 1858 in Taroom, such as a courthouse completed in the same year. By 1860 there were three hotels in Taroom; a school took in 1870 on their operation. The Taroom Racing Club was founded in 1874 and then several dairy farmers settled. Two churches were built in 1896, an Anglican and a Catholic. 1899 Hospital was completed.

In 1920 a school building will be built, has both a state and home to a Catholic school. 1944 building burned down in Taroom and 1947 modern buildings and from 1956 to 1959 a modern school buildings were erected.

Economy

The town is a center of the meat industry in Queensland. Other important economic activities are the timber industry and the cultivation of wheat.

Taroom is located in a sedimentary basin, the Suratbecken, into which large coal deposits. Three kilometers from Taroom, there is an open pit coal mine, the Taroom Coal Project.

Tourism

In Taroom now houses several shops, a hospital, sports facilities, a swimming pool, a historical museum, the Leichhardt Hotel and motel like a camping site.

In the village there are several listed buildings. Tourists also come to Taroom to visit the Leichhardt Tree and photograph. Also located in the Taroom Ludwig Leichhardt Memorial, a memorial stone on which three bronze plaques are applied. The memorial stone is located in Ludwig Leichhardt Park on the Yaldwyn Street, east of the Leichhardt tree.

For more than 100 years, the Taroom Show Society organizes a city festival, the Taroom Show.

In the near Taroom Isla Gorge National Park, Palm Grove National Park, Precipice National Park and Expedition National Park lie.

Floods

On 27 December 2010, the place of the waters of the Dawson River to the north, west and south was flooded. Here, the river reached a height of 10.28 meters, a meter higher than during the flood of 1956.