Rosebank, Townsville
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Rosebank, 2015
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| Location | 21 Lawson Street, Mysterton, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 19°17′23″S 146°47′29″E / 19.2897°S 146.7914°ECoordinates: 19°17′23″S 146°47′29″E / 19.2897°S 146.7914°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | c. 1885 |
| Official name: Rosebank | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600877 |
| Significant period | 1880s-1920s (historical) 1880s-1910s (fabric) |
| Significant components | kitchen/kitchen house, trees/plantings, garden/grounds, residential accommodation - main house |
 Location of Rosebank, Townsville in Queensland
Location of Rosebank, Townsville in Queensland
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Rosebank is a heritage-listed detached house at 21 Lawson Street, Mysterton, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was built c. 1885. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Rosebank, a substantial, single-storeyed timber residence, was erected c. 1885 for well-known Townsville identities Rose and Andrew Ball.
Andrew Ball was one of the first Europeans to explore the Cleveland Bay district, and is acknowledged as the founder of Townsville. In 1864 he was managing Woodstock Station (to the south of Ross River) for pastoralists Robert Towns and John Melton Black (who together owned Jarvisfield and Woodstock cattle runs and Fanning Downs and Victoria Downs sheep stations), when Black asked Ball to explore the country to the north, to find a suitable wharfage site at Cleveland Bay from which to handle station produce. Ball, accompanied by Mark Watt Reid and two Aboriginal stockmen, set out in April 1864 and eventually found the mouth of what later was called the Ross River. The site Ball selected for a wharf and port was on Ross Creek, a tributary of Ross River. Lying beneath the huge sandstone outcrop of Castle Hill, the location reminded Ball of Castletown, the capital of the Isle of Man, and that was what he called the place. When a government town site was surveyed here in 1865, the name was changed officially from Castletown to Townsville, in honour of Robert Towns.
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