Kingaroy Peanut Silos
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| Location | 117-131 Haly Street, Kingaroy, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 26°32′24″S 151°50′30″E / 26.54°S 151.8416°ECoordinates: 26°32′24″S 151°50′30″E / 26.54°S 151.8416°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1938 |
| Architect | Thomas Robinson & Son, Macdonald Wagner Consulting Engineers |
| Official name: Kingaroy Peanut Silos | |
| Type | state heritage |
| Designated | 8 October 2010 |
| Reference no. | 602764 |
| Significant components | silo |
| Builders | Kell & Rigby |
 Location of Kingaroy Peanut Silos in Queensland
Location of Kingaroy Peanut Silos in Queensland
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Kingaroy Peanut Silos is a heritage-listed silos at 117-131 Haly Street, Kingaroy, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Thomas Robinson & Son and Macdonald Wagner Consulting Engineers and built in 1938 by Kell & Rigby. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 8 October 2010.
The Kingaroy Peanut Silos located in Haly Street, Kingaroy are a group of three concrete silos (Nos 2, 3 and 4) that were constructed between 1938 and 1951 by the Queensland Peanut Marketing Board for storage of peanuts before their processing and marketing. These large structures dominate the skyline of Kingaroy and the surrounding landscape. They are widely recognised symbols of the peanut growing and processing industry in Queensland that developed as a commercial enterprise in the South Burnett centred upon Kingaroy and which has been managed from this town since the 1920s.
Although initial pastoral settlement in the Kingaroy area commenced in the 1840s when Taabinga station and Burrandowan station were taken up, the town of Kingaroy owes its establishment to the arrival of the Kilkivan branch railway in 1904. In 1898 the only resident in the vicinity of Kingaroy was Daniel Carroll who had selected a 160-acre block abutting the 3,430 acres (1,390 hectares) Kingaroy Paddock selection in 1891 and built a hut and yard for his horses. By 1900 he had erected a cottage and had selected further blocks of land adjoining his original portion. In 1902 a provisional school opened in Kingaroy with about twenty pupils. Once the Kilkivan branch railway reached the 56 mile peg near the corner of the Kingaroy Paddock in 1904, the railway terminus was the impetus for the establishment of Kingaroy township. Both Carroll and Arthur Youngman, owner of the Kingaroy Paddock, auctioned town blocks at public auction during 1904. When the first train arrived, there were only three buildings - Carroll's new hotel, the Carrollee, FC Petersen's store and Carroll Cottage. After the arrival of the railway Kingaroy quickly developed as a service centre with the establishment of commercial premises such as shops and hotels. These were soon followed by public buildings, churches and schools. The seven years during which Kingaroy was the railhead were sufficient for it to establish a lasting dominance over neighbouring townships.
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