Biographical notes on key figures memorialized in our streets and local geography (by Linda Venn)
The Paluma district, is full of creeks, mountains, tracks, roads waterfalls and streets bearing the names of our pioneers. What follows is a series of notes on the people (or occasionally boats and animals) behind Paluma place-names.
The Benham Family (Benham Track, Benham Creek, Benham Falls, Mt Benham, Ethel Creek & Falls)
For this first article, I thought I’d start with the Benhams, simply because I have good information on them. I am indebted to the information provided on this adventurous family in the 1986 history published two Benham descendants, Lee Digweed and Marilyn Hammond, Our Benham Children, more…
Coming Soon, the people behind ….
• Mt Leach
• McClelland’s Lookout
• Witt’s (or Widt’s) Lookout
• Foxlee’s Track, Foxlee’s Lookout
• Bullocky Tom’s Track, Bullocky Tom’s Creek
• Wilfred’s Lookout
• Torsten’s Rockgarden
• Johnstone’s Hut
• Prospector’s Creek (later Hermit) Creek
• Hermitville
• Shay’s Clearing
• Gard’s Lookout; Gard’s Hut; Gard’s Battery
• Lennox Crescent
• Whalley Crescent
• Smith Crescent, Smith Falls
• Hussey Road
• Paluma
• Mount Spec and Mount Spec Road