Jimna, Queensland
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| Postcode(s) | 4515 | ||||||||||||||
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| LGA(s) | Somerset Region | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Nanango | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Blair | ||||||||||||||
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Jimna is a small town and rural locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia.[1][2]
History
The name Jimna is believed to be an Aboriginal word djimna meaning place of leeches.[1][2]
The first Jimna Post Office opened on 1 July 1868 and closed in 1879. A receiving office was open from 1891 to 1909, and from 1925 until the second Jimna Post Office opened on 1 July 1927. This closed in 1981.[3]
Monsildale Provisional School opened on 2 June 1913. In 1923, the school was moved and renamed Foxlowe Provisional School. On 25 June 1926 it was renamed Jimna Provisional School. On 1 October 1934, it was upgraded to a State School. It was mothballed at the end of 2006 and closed on 31 December 2009. (In about 1941, a separate Monsildale State School was opened but closed about 1961.)[4][5][6]
Commercial loggers Hancock and Gore moved their sawmill from Monsildale to what would become Jimna in 1922. The sawmill was burnt down by fire in 1947.[7]
The state government established a hoop pine nursery at Jimna in 1935. Jimna hall was opened in 1934 and the school, still in use today, was opened the same year[7] When sawmilling contracted in the mid 1970s the town's population reduced significantly.[7]
Heritage listings
Jimna has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
- Murgon-Kilcoy Road: Jimna Fire Tower[8]
- 4 Tip Road: former Jimna Single Men's Barracks[9]
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