Pioneer Shire Council Chambers
| Pioneer Shire Council Building | |
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Pioneer Shire Council Building, 2006
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| Location | 1 Wood Street, Mackay, Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 21°08′24″S 149°11′11″E / 21.1399°S 149.1864°ECoordinates: 21°08′24″S 149°11′11″E / 21.1399°S 149.1864°E |
| Built | 1935 |
| Architect | Harold Vivian Marsh Brown |
| Official name: Pioneer Shire Council Building (former) | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 7 December 2007 |
| Reference no. | 602603 |
| Significant period | 1935 - |
| Significant components | council chamber/meeting room |
| Builders | William Patrick Guthrie |
 Location of Pioneer Shire Council Building in Queensland
Location of Pioneer Shire Council Building in Queensland
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Pioneer Shire Council Building is a heritage-listed town hall at 1 Wood Street, Mackay, Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Harold Vivian Marsh Brown and built in 1935 by William Patrick Guthrie. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 December 2007.
The former Pioneer Shire Council Building was constructed to a design by Harold Vivian Marsh Brown in 1935 and occupied by the Pioneer Shire Council until 1994 when the Pioneer Shire was amalgamated with the Mackay City Council.
John Mackay and John McCrossin first explored the area in which the Pioneer Shire was located in 1860. Returning to the area in 1862, Mackay established and subsequently lost, the extensive pastoral holding he had named "Greenmount". The township of Mackay, originally named Alexandra, was surveyed in June 1863. The first town allotments were offered for sale from the police station in Bowen in October 1863. Two years after the establishment of Mackay, the first sugar was planted on the Pioneer Plantation, introducing to the region its key agricultural product and industry.
The first local government body formed in the Pioneer Valley region was the Mackay Municipal Council, which first met on 1 December 1869.
The Pioneer Divisional Board was proclaimed in November 1879, the same year the Divisional Boards Act was enacted and first met in the Mackay School of Arts building on March 13, 1880. The Act established local government boards to administer parts of the State. In many cases these divisions surrounded regional towns or cities, some eighteen of which had been incorporated by 1878.
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