Taroom Aboriginal Settlement
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Taroom Aboriginal Settlement site, 2010
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| Location | on Bundulla, Taroom, Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 25°34′44″S 149°52′45″E / 25.5789°S 149.8793°ECoordinates: 25°34′44″S 149°52′45″E / 25.5789°S 149.8793°E |
| Design period | 1900 - 1914 (early 20th century) |
| Official name: Taroom Aboriginal Settlement (former) | |
| Type | state heritage (archaeological, landscape) |
| Designated | 13 May 2011 |
| Reference no. | 602769 |
| Significant components | artefact field, cemetery |
 Location of Taroom Aboriginal Settlement in Queensland
Location of Taroom Aboriginal Settlement in Queensland
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Taroom Aboriginal Settlement is a heritage-listed Aboriginal reserve at Bundulla, Taroom, Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 13 May 2011. It is also known as Taroom Aboriginal Reserve and Taroom Aboriginal Mission.
The Taroom Aboriginal Settlement, also known as Taroom Aboriginal Reserve, was established as a government-operated reserve on a site on the Dawson River, east of the township of Taroom in 1911. The settlement was established under the Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897, which enabled direct government control over the lives of Aboriginal people in Queensland, including forced removals to designated reserves. Under the direction of a superintendent, the settlement housed Aboriginal people from different language groups and regions of Queensland, who lived within a highly regulated and tightly controlled institutional environment until its closure in 1927.
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt led the first European exploration of the upper Dawson River district during his expedition north from the Darling Downs to Port Essington in 1844-46. Pastoral settlement in the area commenced soon after, with squatters attracted by Leichhardt's reports of its rich grazing land. By November 1845, Taroom Station had been taken up, and by the time the Leichhardt pastoral district of 40,000 acres (16,187 ha) was proclaimed in 1854, most of the country had been taken up for pastoral purposes. The township of Taroom developed at a crossing point on the Dawson River at the junction of several tracks from Juandah, Gayndah and Roma, and developed slowly as a staging post between Roma and Rockhampton. A post office was established there in 1853, a courtroom gazetted in 1857, and the town was officially surveyed in 1860.
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