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| The main street of
Herberton with the Royal Hotel in the foreground
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Herberton
Pleasant town in the Atherton Tablelands, now also called
the Cairns Highlands.
Herberton is a pretty little town set in the rolling hills
of the Atherton Tablelands. It seems to stretch out along
the hills and meander across the ridges. Located 122 km from
Cairns and 915 metres above sea level it is now a quiet town
with a population of about 1500. There are only hints that
it was once the most important mining town on the
Tablelands.
Like so many of the towns on the Tablelands Herberton
really had a single raison d'etre - it was a tin town with
both a mine and a smelter nearby.
Herberton came to importance when, on 19 April 1880, a
party of prospectors led by Willie Jack and John Newell
discovered tin in the area. They named the settlement
Herberton because it was at the headwaters of the Herbert
River.
In 1882 the two men established a store in Herberton
(Jack sold his interest in the mine to John Moffat - see
Irvinebank) under the banner of 'General Merchants and
Forwarding and Shipping Agents' and over the next decade
they became the most successful merchants in the area.
Eventually there were Jack and Newell stores in Mareeba,
Irvinebank, Watsonville, Mount Garnet, Cairns, Port Douglas
and a number of other smaller towns.
It is important to remember that the discovery of tin at
Herberton was largely responsible for the development of the
other towns on the Atherton Tablelands. The constant search
for good access routes to the sea meant that a number of
roads (all of which focussed on Herberton) were hacked out
of the rainforest and towns like Yungaburra and Millaa
Millaa came into existence. Towns like Mareeba and Atherton
were originally stopover places for the Cobb & Co coaches
which plied the route from Port Douglas to Herberton.
By the early 1900s the town was booming. There was a
population of 8000, two newspapers, 17 pubs and a brewery.
Little is left to recall this boom time. The Jack and Newell
General Store opposite the council offices was built in 1882
and was constructed from pit sawn cedar. Some of the
original joinery can still be seen in the building. It is
now a bakery shop.
Entering the town from Atherton the prominent landmark of
the old Great Northern Mining Concentrator is a reminder of
the town's earlier importance. It now stands idle - a relic
of the boom times.
Recently Herberton has become something of a commuter
town with most of the people in the town working elsewhere
and living in this pleasant 'village in the hills'. There
are a number of miners who, having once worked in the
Herberton mines, now work at Kidston gold mine.
Things to see:
Herberton Historical Village and Museum
The town's most important and interesting tourist attraction
is the Herberton Historical Village and Museum - a
remarkable collection of over 20 buildings all of which have
been relocated to a site north of the present township. For
example the Bishop Feetham's Cottage, a National Trust
listed building, has found its way from the main street of
Herberton out to the Historical Village. The ANZ Bank now
stands where the Bishop's unusual one room timber cottage
once stood and the old cottage, with its exposed stud frame
and corrugated iron gable roof, is now located next to the
entrance at the Historical Village.
Herberton Historical Village claims to be the largest
collection of Australiana in Queensland with 28 buildings
and 20 fully displayed. Its range of buildings include an
old school, a coach and livery stable, a miner's hut, a slab
hut dating from 1870, a bank, a presbytery, a telephone
exchange, a pub (which is a composite of a number of
buildings) and many more. Many visitors will find that the
entry fee is excessively high and there is a strict 'no
cameras' and 'no animals' regulations. Contact: (07) 4096
2271.
Photo Gallery
An interesting addition to the town's attractions is the
Black and White photographic gallery at 49b Grace Street
which specialises in handpainted black and white
photographs.
The Crater National Park
A few kilometres out of town is one of the most interesting
of all the volcanic formations on the Tablelands. A short
walk of 400 metres in The Crater National Park (sometimes
referred to as the Mount Hypipamee National Park) leads to a
crater formed by a single violent explosion.
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| The crater formed by a
single violent explosion, Crater National Park.
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The crater is an estimated 95 000 years old. The sheer
sides drop 56 metres into a pool covered by green lichens
and the pool is 82.3 metres deep. The depth of the drop, the
green waters far below and the tropical vegetation clinging
to the crater walls give the area an eery, unnatural feel.
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