Spicers Gap Road
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Spicers Gap Road, 2009
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| Location | Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park (with Main Range National Park), Tregony, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 28°04′55″S 152°24′42″E / 28.0819°S 152.4117°ECoordinates: 28°04′55″S 152°24′42″E / 28.0819°S 152.4117°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1859 - 1865 |
| Official name: Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park, Spicers Gap Road, Spicers Peak Road | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 23 July 1999 |
| Reference no. | 601732 |
| Significant period | 1850s-1870s, 1930s-1940s (historical) 1859-ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | quarry, views to, culvert - storm water, drain - storm water, road/roadway, views from, pole/s - telegraph |
 Location of Spicers Gap Road in Queensland
Location of Spicers Gap Road in Queensland
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Spicers Gap Road is a heritage-listed road at Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park (in the Main Range National Park), Tregony, Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1859 to 1865. It is also known as Spicers Gap Road Conservation Park and Spicers Peak Road. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 23 July 1999.
During his exploration of the Brisbane River with surveyor John Oxley in 1824, explorer Allan Cunningham had observed the Dividing Range to the south-west. In 1827, Cunningham led a party to explore the land beyond this range, approaching from the south and inland, from New England. Leaving the Hunter River in April 1827, Cunningham made the first recorded European discovery of the Darling Downs, along Glengallen Creek, on 5 June 1827.
On 11 June 1827, Cunningham identified a possible dray route (later known as Spicers Gap) through the Dividing Range to the coast. Cunningham returned to Sydney where he reported to Governor Ralph Darling on the quality of the country, the timber and the potential for an access route to Moreton Bay. In 1828, Cunningham returned to Moreton Bay to search for the pass through the Great Dividing Range, he travelled south-west from Ipswich and discovered Cunningham's Gap in the Great Dividing Range on 21 August 1828. Although Cunningham suspected that the newly identified pass was not the same one which he had discovered in 1827 (Spicers Gap), a search further north failed to find the other pass and he returned to Cunningham's Gap, which he then incorrectly assumed must have been the pass he identified in 1827.
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