Hinterland Stories

Sharing the memories of Montville, Flaxton, Balmoral and Hunchy.

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Written in Stone

by Gordon Plowman (2021) The pillars either side of the Montville Memorial Gate pay tribute to the fallen and those who served during...

Long rows of grey-green spikes once crowned acres of Blackall Range slopes. It was postcard pretty but represented back breaking work for...

The MVA Walking Track from below Baroon Dam to the Narrows: 1989 – 1998 The first MVA record of a proposed walking track to the Obi Obi...

Daily Mail (Brisbane, Qld. 1903 – 1926), Wednesday 23 June 1926, p. 3 TRAMPING THE BLACKALLS – To Flaxton and Mapleton A LAND OF PLEASANT...

The 1990 Montville School students’ competition for the best design and motto for Montville’s own flag had more than fifty entries and...

The Montville Sports and Recreation Ground, formerly the Montville Recreation Ground, is situated at 230 – 238, Balmoral Road, some three...

By Gordon Plowman The golden glow of evening invokes memories from the past and sometimes, when the mood is right, our minds take us back...

Part 1 Cricket and Cowpats It would seem that the Montville Cricket Team disbanded in 1975/6. Unfortunately, we have been unable to trace...

Hinterland Times ran our follow-up story on the work of Italian POWs along the Blackall Range and across the Sunshine Coast Hinterland in...

When the Baroon Pocket Dam was being constructed.

Posted by Cate Patterson on Mar 3, 2019 This is a history record that everyone can contribute to by either challenging a claim or adding...

The First People The oral history of the original people of the Blackall Range relates that members of the Jinibara Federation, the Nalbo...

by Gordon Plowman For decades, residents of the Blackall Range depended on kerosene, candles and carbide for their lighting needs. They...

The Story Continues In February 2018, the Hinterland Times published an article, ‘Rations and Song’, on Italian POWs serving on farms...

From Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld.: 1922 – 1954), Friday 26 November 1954, page 5 By T.H.Brown. In the process of...

Early settlement of Montville Timber getters knew of the rich source of cedar in the area before the Colony of Queensland was created in...

Brisbane Courier (Qld. 1864 – 1933), Thursday 8 June 1922, page 8 Montville sits on the escarpment SUPERB MOUNTAIN SCENERY PICTURESQUE...

Long before the now well-known hinterland town names such as Maleny, Montville and Mapleton there was Boorum (Baroon). Records of its...

By the late 1970s the Pocket had changed. The dairy industry had collapsed and the community had moved on to mixed farming, hobby farming...