Cecil Plains
Service town for the surrounding rich agricultural land.
There is something quite extraordinary about the dark black
soils of the area around Cecil Plains. They look so rich and
fertile. Located 212 km west of Brisbane and 84 km west of
Toowoomba, Cecil Plains is a tiny settlement which now
boasts one of the largest cotton gins in the world. This
unusual claim to fame is a direct result of the richness of
the local soil and a commitment, in recent years, to making
the Darling Downs (from St George in the west and
Goondiwindi in the south across to the hills of the Great
Divide) one of the richest cotton-producing areas in the
southern hemisphere.
The first European in the area was Henry Stuart Russell,
a wealthy 22-year-old member of the English upper class, who
arrived in 1841, laying claim to land which he later called
Cecil Plains Station. It was named after his mother's family
- the Cecils, a powerful Tory family who could trace their
lineage back to the sixteenth century.
The story is that Russell started from the Condamine
River and simply took the best land on either side of this
permanent and reliable water course. The result was a parcel
of land which stretched from Yandilla station through to
Jondaryan.
Russell and his workers erected their tents on a site
which subsequently became the location of the station
homestead and eventually the site of the township. Unlike
many of the other landholders in the area Russell started
with cattle. He quickly established himself as one of the
most successful graziers in the area.
In 1844 and 1847 Ludwig Leichhardt used Cecil Plains
station as the base for his botanical expeditions into the
surrounding region. He moved further north to Jimbour for
his major journey to Port Essington.
Russell's involvement with Cecil Plains was short-lived.
He formed a partnership with James Taylor and in 1848 left
Cecil Plains station, never to return. Taylor eventually
bought out Russell's share of the property which, by the
turn of the century, covered a vast 130 000 acres of the
rich black Darling Downs. Although the soil was sufficiently
fertile for cultivation the property was used almost
exclusively for sheep with the wool being sold to markets as
far away as Europe.
The area was to change forever when, in 1916, Cecil
Plains station was sold to the Queensland Government. It was
subdivided into 185 portions, of which 75 were set aside for
the Soldier Settlement Scheme. The vast majority of the new
arrivals eked a humble living by a combination of dairy and
wheat farming.
The railway arrived in 1919 and while it changed the
quality of life for the residents in the area it did little
to increase the size of the town. The post office was
established at the railway station in 1921 and a police
station was built in 1934.
Unbelievably, for an Australian town (which usually
starts with an inn) the town did not get its first hotel
until 1938. The teetotalers twice voted against a drinking
establishment and when the imbibers finally won a third vote
they decided to call the hotel 'Victory' as a statement of
the triumph of thirst over adversity.
In the mid-1960s, after over a century of cattle and
sheep grazing, the area turned its attentions to cotton
growing. Since then cotton has become an increasingly
important crop and it is common, between April and July, to
see the sides of the roads littered with cotton balls which
have fallen off trucks taking their loads to the local
cotton gin.
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