Elbow Valley

History

The locality presumably takes its name from the Elbow River, which was named by botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham in his field notes on 6 June 1827. On 1 January 1909, it became Elbow Valley State School. It closed in 1946. In 1952, the school building was relocated to the St George area. It was at 27 Church Lane (approx ). It closed in 1982 and is now used as a house. It is listed on the Southern Downs Local Heritage Register. Westmore State School opened in 1916 and closed in 1923. This school described as from Killarney was presumably in the vicinity of Westmore Road () and the Westmoor pastoral property, and may have been associated with the Westmore Cheese factory which opened in January 1914 and was from the school. It was a "tent school" and officially opened on 1 July 1916 by Francis Grayson, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cunningham, with food provided by the cheese factory. In June 1927, the Queensland Government called for tenders to remove the school building.