Burrandowan Station Homestead
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Burrandowan Station Homestead, 2001
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| Location | Kingaroy Road, Durong, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 26°25′08″S 151°19′42″E / 26.419°S 151.3282°ECoordinates: 26°25′08″S 151°19′42″E / 26.419°S 151.3282°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1848 - c. 1927 |
| Official name: Burrandowan Station Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (built, archaeological, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600648 |
| Significant period | 1840s-1860s (historical) 1840s-1860s (fabric) |
| Significant components | tennis court, out building/s, grave surrounds/railings, residential accommodation - main house, shed/s, kitchen/kitchen house, dining room, residential accommodation - quarters |
 Location of Burrandowan Station Homestead in Queensland
Location of Burrandowan Station Homestead in Queensland
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Burrandowan Station Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Kingaroy Road, Durong, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1848 to c. 1927. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Burrandowan was established by Henry Stuart Russell in 1843 and was one of the first pastoral runs to be taken up in the Wide Bay area. The homestead buildings are early vernacular structures associated with the operation of this station.
Henry Stuart Russell arrived in Australia from England in 1840 and joined relatives in Sydney. These were the Hodgsons who had a property in the Hunter Valley and subsequently established Eton Vale station on the Darling Downs. Russell travelled with them to the Darling Downs and in 1841 took up Cecil Plains station with his brother Sydenham.
Searches for pastoral land extended north in the early 1840s after the Moreton Bay region was opened for selection following the closure of the penal colony. Initial leases were taken up in the Moreton Bay, Darling Downs and Brisbane Valley regions, but by 1842 squatters were looking further north for suitable land. In May 1842, Russell joined an expedition to search the Wide Bay area for grazing country and in November of the same year, with Sydenham and William Glover, made another expedition to the Wide Bay area. They chose land that they named Burrandowan, said to mean "big wind" in the local Aboriginal dialect. This area was outside the area officially designated for pastoral settlement, however, and so the run was not registered. After a second visit to the area, Russell returned to Cecil Plains, leaving Sydenham and Glover in charge and the new run was stocked with sheep from Cecil Plains in May 1843. Relationships with the local Aboriginal people at Burrandowan were, and continued to be, hostile and shepherds were reluctant to work there. Sydenham and Glover soon became dispirited and left, Sydenham being back in England by 1844. Russell returned to manage the property until he sold it to Captain G.S.N. Living in the same year.
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