Ravenshoe

History

The traditional owners of the land in the Ravenshoe district are the Jirrbal people who speak a dialect of the Dyirbal language. By 1912, Ravenshoe had a store, a school, the Club Hotel and a population of 1,000 people. The timber industry was by now supplying Queensland maple (Flindersia brayleyana), oak (Argyrodendron peralatum) and black walnut (Endiandra globosa). Geraldton Road State School opened in 1916 via Ravenshoe. It closed in 1960. Chilverton State School opened on 31 July 1916 "via Ravenshoe". It closed on 1 July 1956. Ravenshoe Methodist Church was officially opened on Saturday 29 May 1920, the first church to be erected in Ravenshoe. It was built from timber and was and could seat 80 people. It cost £390. It was at 13 Moore Street (). After the closure of the church some time after 1975, the building was relocated to 592 Wooroora Road to be incorporated into a house. Horse Shoe Bend State School (sometimes written as Horseshoe Bend State School) opened in 1917 under head teacher Mary Ellen Duffy. It closed in 1925 due to low student numbers. The school reopened in 1929 and closed on 1 August 1952. It was at 182 Glendinning Road (). It is no longer extant, but was at 12280 Kennedy Highway (). The school was at 620 Tully Falls Road (). Roads connected Ravenshoe with Atherton and Innisfail by 1936. On Sunday 14 November 1937, Feetham returned to officially open and dedicate the church. It was built from timber. On Sunday 6 June 1937, St Theresa of the Child Jesus Catholic Church was officially opened and blessed by Bishop John Heavey. It was and built from timber. In the 1970s, it was relocated to enable the construction of a new church building, which was made from concrete blocks. The old church building was then used as a school building. In…

Geography

Ravenshoe is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. It is located south west of the regional centre, Cairns. At above sea level, Ravenshoe is the highest town in Queensland, with Queensland's highest pub "The Ravenshoe Hotel" (formerly the "Tully Falls Hotel" until 2014) and highest railway station. It also has the Millstream Falls, the widest waterfall in Australia. Traditionally the main industry in Ravenshoe was timber, but since 1987, when the government made of surrounding rainforest world heritage listed, the main industries have been tourism, beef and dairy farming.

Most-observed species

• Lewin's Honeyeater

  Meliphaga lewinii (Swainson, 1837) · Aves
  1,637
• Pied Currawong

  Strepera graculina (Shaw, 1790) · Aves
  1,457
• Golden Whistler

  Pachycephala pectoralis (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  1,398
• White-throated Treecreeper

  Cormobates leucophaea (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  1,379
• Brown Cuckoo-Dove

  Macropygia phasianella (Temminck, 1821) · Aves
  1,290
• Brown Gerygone

  Gerygone mouki Mathews, 1912 · Aves
  1,273
• Eastern Whipbird

  Psophodes olivaceus (Latham, 1802) · Aves
  1,257
• Gray Fantail

  Rhipidura albiscapa Gould, 1840 · Aves
  1,251

Most recent

• M 3.6 — 2011-03-15
  30 km NE of Innisfail Estate, Australia