| Cunningham Queensland | |||||||||||||||
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 Country Women's Association Memorial Hall, Cunningham, 2015 | |||||||||||||||
  Cunningham | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 28°09′34″S151°50′08″E / 28.15944°S 151.83556°E Coordinates: 28°09′34″S151°50′08″E / 28.15944°S 151.83556°E | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 4370 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Southern Downs Region | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Southern Downs | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Maranoa | ||||||||||||||
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Cunningham is a locality in the Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. [1]
The locality is named after explorer and botanist Allan Cunningham who was the first European to see the lush pastures of the Darling Downs in 1827. [1]
The Condamine River forms the north-eastern boundary of the locality. The Cunningham Highway passes through the locality in an approximately east-west direction and forms part of the southern boundary. The South Western railway line passes through the locality from the north-east to the south-west. The land is mostly used for farming. There is a small urban centre on the Leyburn-Cunningham Road which features the Country Women's Association Memorial Hall at Cunningham Road, [2] a memorial park and the now disused Cunningham railway station. [3]
The memorial park has a picnic table as well as three memorials to (left to right):
The memorial cairn to Patrick Leslie was erected by the Rosenthal Shire Council and unveiled on 10 December 1959 by the Shire Chairman, J. A. Costello. [4]
The Cunningham branch of the Queensland Country Women's Association meets at the QCWA Hall on Cunningham Road. [5]
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