Gayndah State School
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Gayndah State School, 2004
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| Location | 33 Meson Street, Gayndah, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 25°37′29″S 151°36′18″E / 25.6246°S 151.6051°ECoordinates: 25°37′29″S 151°36′18″E / 25.6246°S 151.6051°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1861 - 1862 |
| Architectural style(s) | Gothic |
| Official name: Gayndah State School | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600516 |
| Significant period | 1860s (historical) 1860s (fabric) |
| Significant components | school/school room |
 Location of Gayndah State School in Queensland
Location of Gayndah State School in Queensland
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Gayndah State School is a heritage-listed state school at 33 Meson Street, Gayndah, North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1861 to 1862. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Construction of the National School at Gayndah was commenced in 1861 after members of the Gayndah community submitted designs for a primary school to the Board of General Education in 1860 which were approved and £700 was granted towards the cost of construction. The building was completed in 1862 and the first schoolmaster, Hercules Smith, took up duties in September 1863. The school opened in November 1873.
Gazetted in 1849, the town of Gayndah initially developed as the centre for a number of large sheep stations taken up in the Burnett region during the 1840s. Gayndah's early growth as a pastoral "capital" is largely attributed to the determination of the squatters and the town developed as the administrative centre for the area, as the school was established in 1861, and post office and court house were erected. A branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney was opened in 1864, and a local government authority, Borough of Gayndah, was established in 1867. By the late nineteenth century, cattle had replaced sheep as the dominant pastoral activity. Citrus orchards also flourished, and together with cattle and dairy farming, provided the basis for the development of Gayndah from the turn of the century.
National Schools were established by the Governor of New South Wales, Charles Augustus FitzRoy, in 1848 at which time he appointed a Board of National Education to undertake the task of creating a system of government schools similar to the National School system in Ireland. When Queensland separated in 1859, it inherited two national schools in Warwick (1850) and Drayton (1851). Following separation, the Queensland Government passed The Education Act of 1860 to establish a Board of General Education to oversee the administration of National Schools throughout the new Colony of Queensland.
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