Glenmore Homestead
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Glenmore Homestead, 2009
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| Location | Belmont Road, Parkhurst, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 23°18′52″S 150°29′03″E / 23.3144°S 150.4843°ECoordinates: 23°18′52″S 150°29′03″E / 23.3144°S 150.4843°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | c. 1858 - c. 1920 |
| Official name: Glenmore Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600823 |
| Significant period | 1860s-1870s (historical) |
| Significant components | store/s / storeroom / storehouse, residential accommodation - main house, furniture/fittings |
 Location of Glenmore Homestead in Queensland
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Glenmore Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Belmont Road, Parkhurst, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from c. 1858 to c. 1920. The homestead and associated buildings once belonged to pastoral run on the Fitzroy River, seven kilometres northwest of Rockhampton, Queensland. Originally much larger at 127 square miles the current size of the property is 20 acres. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The grazing property was originally settled in 1858 by leaseholder John Arthur McCartney. In 1860, Macartney opposed a proposal to establish a municipality for Rockhampton with a proposed area of about 225 square kilometres. Glenmore, on the northern side of the river, was as vulnerable as Gracemere Station (the proposed boundaries of the municipality included the head station and Gracemere Homestead). Glenmore, however, did not have the substantial homestead and outbuildings like Gracemere. Eventually, the boundaries for the Municipality of Rockhampton were established as the usual five square miles.
In 1861 the Birkbeck family arrived in Rockhampton from Mexico to inspect grazing land after Samuel Bradford Birkbeck had spent half his lifetime as a mining engineer and manager of a silver mine. Birkbeck had worked on his father's farm in Illinois, USA, during his youth, but had no experience of Australian pastoral life. On 14 January 1864, the land was purchased by Birkbeck and his Spanish-Mexican wife, Damiana de Barre Valdez. The Birkbecks had eight sons and one daughter, Elena.
In July 1865, residents expressed anxieties about the presence of natives in the vicinity and a group of native troopers attacked members of the Darumbal tribe and massacred 18 of them, and then burnt their corpses.
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