Warwick (Queensland)

Warwick is a town with 12,500 inhabitants in the south of the Australian state of Queensland. It is located 160 km south-west of Brisbane and 85 kilometers south of Toowoomba on the Condamine River. The city is the administrative headquarters of the administrative area (LGA ) Southern Downs region. Both the New England Highway and the Cunningham Highway passing through the city.

In the green belt of Warwick, on the banks of the Condamine River, there is a sculpture of Tiddalik, the mystical frog from the Dreamtime of the Aborigines, who drank all the water, causing a drought.

History

The first Europeans who were the brothers George and Patrick Leslie settled in the area. Your farm, called Canning Downs, was a blacksmith and a shop, an important center for the farmers in this region. In 1847, the government of New South Wales commissioned, Queensland was established in 1859, Patrick Leslie select a place for a city that Cannington should be called. Agreement was reached later on the name Warwick. By following the railroad began in 1871 to the thriving industry in Warwick, it emerged within a few years, a brewery, a flour mill and a brickyard.