Cardwell Divisional Board Hall
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Cardwell Divisional Board Hall, 2008
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| Location | 51 Victoria Street, Cardwell, Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 18°16′04″S 146°01′47″E / 18.2679°S 146.0297°ECoordinates: 18°16′04″S 146°01′47″E / 18.2679°S 146.0297°E |
| Built | 1892 |
| Architectural style(s) | Classicism |
| Official name: Cardwell Divisional Board Hall (former) and Honour Board, JC Hubinger Memorial Museum, JC Hubinger Museum, JC Hubinger Memorial Hall | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 March 2013 |
| Reference no. | 601768 |
| Significant period | 1892-1929 |
| Significant components | stage/sound shell |
 Location of Cardwell Divisional Board Hall in Queensland
Location of Cardwell Divisional Board Hall in Queensland
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Cardwell Divisional Board Hall is a heritage-listed former town hall at 51 Victoria Street, Cardwell, Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It is also known as the Cardwell Shire Chambers, Cardwell Shire Hall, JC Hubinger Memorial Museum, JC Hubinger Museum, and JC Hubinger Memorial Hall. The hall and its World War I honour roll were added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 March 2013.
The Cardwell Divisional Board Hall was originally constructed in 1892 and is located within an early government precinct on Victoria Street, Cardwell. Very few purpose-built divisional board halls or offices survive in Queensland. The timber building became the Cardwell Shire Hall in 1903, and a marble honour board was added in 1922.After the Cardwell Shire Council's administrative functions moved to Tully in 1929 the hall was used by the Queensland Country Women's Association (QCWA) and later the Returned Sailors' Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia (RSSAILA) before becoming a library from 1989-2008. It is now part of the Cardwell Bush Telegraph Heritage Centre and is called the JC Hubinger Museum.
European settlement of the Cardwell district began in January 1864 when a small party landed at Rockingham Bay. The expedition was a private initiative led by George Elphinstone Dalrymple and backed by the Queensland Government. Dalrymple hoped to establish the first Queensland port north of Bowen, which he had helped establish in 1861, and a viable route between the coast and his pastoral run Valley of Lagoons, which was taken up in 1863. Between February and April 1864 Dalrymple journeyed to Valley of Lagoons and returned to the coast, establishing a dray road later called the Dalrymple Gap Track. Initially known as Port Hinchinbrook, the new town was declared a port of entry in May 1864, but Governor Bowen later changed the name to Cardwell, in honour of Edward Cardwell, the then British Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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