Carroll Cottage
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Carroll Cottage, 2000
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| Location | 6 Edward Street, Kingaroy, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 26°32′18″S 151°50′30″E / 26.5384°S 151.8417°ECoordinates: 26°32′18″S 151°50′30″E / 26.5384°S 151.8417°E |
| Design period | 1900 - 1914 (early 20th century) |
| Built | 1900 - 1930s |
| Official name: Carroll Cottage, Daniel Carroll's House | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 28 July 2000 |
| Reference no. | 601901 |
| Significant period | 1900s-1930s (fabric) 1900-1910 (historical) |
| Significant components | residential accommodation - main house, kitchen/kitchen house, furniture/fittings |
 Location of Carroll Cottage in Queensland
Location of Carroll Cottage in Queensland
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Carroll Cottage is a heritage-listed cottage at 6 Edward Street, Kingaroy, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1900 to 1930s. It is also known as Daniel Carroll's House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 28 July 2000.
Daniel Carroll's House is a small timber residence constructed in 1900 on a selection owned by Daniel Carroll. Carroll was an early settler of the district, part of a wave of selectors who took up land in the area from the 1880s onwards, and his cottage was the nucleus of a small settlement that was to become the town of Kingaroy. Significant pastoral expansion took place in southern Queensland commencing in 1840 when extensive tracts of land were taken up on the Darling Downs, Brisbane Valley and Logan River area in 1840 and 1841. The first large properties of the Burnett district, Tarong and Nanango, were taken up in 1842.
For about 40 years, these large pastoral holdings survived substantially intact and their dominance suppressed the need for service towns. However, the Lands Act of 1868 caused dramatic changes to rural areas and large portions of these leases were resumed for selection purposes. The result was the closer settlement of smaller selections, which consequently enabled the establishment of rural communities and created a need for service towns and public facilities. The first notable selection in the area was that of the Markwell brothers, who applied for 2156 hectares of land in 1878. It was located on the Stuart River and Kingaroy Creek and became known as the Kingaroy Paddock, ultimately giving its name to the area.
In 1891, Daniel Carroll selected portion 107V, a 160 acre block abutting the Kingaroy Paddock. Carroll had arrived from Ireland at the age of twenty in 1887 and spent some years in the area working as a coach driver. In 1898, it was reported that Carroll was the only European living in the vicinity of the current site of Kingaroy and that he had built a hut for himself and a yard for his horses nearby. In 1900, in anticipation of his forthcoming marriage to Bridget Pender, Carroll had the present cottage built, by a Mr Ferdinand Seng. By this time, Carroll had selected further blocks of land adjoining portion 107V.
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