Caboonbah Homestead
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Caboonbah homestead, 2009
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| Location | Esk-Kilcoy Road, Lake Wivenhoe, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°08′37″S 152°29′31″E / 27.1437°S 152.4919°ECoordinates: 27°08′37″S 152°29′31″E / 27.1437°S 152.4919°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1889 - 1890 |
| Demolished | 10 May 2009 |
| Architectural style(s) | Arts & Crafts |
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Former Queensland Heritage Register
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| Official name: Caboonbah Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 12 December 1996 |
| Delisted | 2014 |
| Reference no. | 601139 |
| Significant period | 1880s-1930s (historical) 1880s-1890s (fabric) |
| Significant components | furniture/fittings, views to, residential accommodation - main house, views from |
 Location of Caboonbah Homestead in Queensland
Location of Caboonbah Homestead in Queensland
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Caboonbah Homestead was a heritage-listed homestead at Esk-Kilcoy Road, Lake Wivenhoe, Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1889 to 1890. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 12 December 1996. It was destroyed by fire in 2009 and removed from the Queensland Heritage Register in 2014.
Caboonbah Homestead was built in 1889-90 for grazier Henry Plantagenet Somerset and his wife Katherine Rose (née McConnel) and their family.
Henry Plantagenet Somerset, connected to an important English military family, arrived in Moreton Bay in 1871 at the age of 19 years, intending to stay only until he could obtain an English army commission. Instead, he took up stock work and station management in Queensland and New South Wales. In 1879 he married Katherine Rose, daughter of pioneer Brisbane Valley squatter David Cannon McConnel of Cressbrook Station. Somerset had worked for the McConnels, learning station skills at Cressbrook during 1872, and then managing Mount Marlow station for them.
During the 1880s Somerset managed a New South Wales pastoral station and meatworks before returning to Queensland to purchase a property of his own. In 1888 he secured approximately 20,000 acres in the Mount Stanley area of the Brisbane Valley as a grazing farm, intending to erect his family home there. He engaged a brickmaker to start making bricks for the chimneys, and employed men to pit-saw pine logs brought down from the ranges. However, respecting the McConnels' wish that the two families should avoid the 19 river crossings between Cressbrook and Mount Stanley, Somerset agreed to exchange 10,000 acres of his Mount Stanley land for 5,000 acres of freehold Cressbrook land at the junction of the Brisbane and Stanley Rivers. Somerset called this property Caboonbah, derived from the Aboriginal Cabon gibba meaning big rock, describing the steep, 120 feet high bank of the Brisbane River on which Caboonbah homestead was built. The property, mostly comprising rich alluvial flats, was divided into 7 paddocks and was devoted to fattening bullocks, dairying and horse-breeding. Some sheep were also run, but eventually these were replaced by goats. In 1892 the first cattle to cross the d'Aguilar Range were a mob of fat bullocks from Caboonbah.
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