Suttor River Causeway
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Suttor River Causeway
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| Location | St Anns Road, Mount Coolon, Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 21°13′30″S 146°54′45″E / 21.225°S 146.9126°ECoordinates: 21°13′30″S 146°54′45″E / 21.225°S 146.9126°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1876 |
| Official name: Suttor River Causeway, Old Bowen Downs Road, St Anns Crossing | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 18 September 2008 |
| Reference no. | 601777 |
| Significant period | 1870s |
| Significant components | causeway/ford |
| Builders | Queensland Department of Public Works |
 Location of Suttor River Causeway in Queensland
Location of Suttor River Causeway in Queensland
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Suttor River Causeway is a heritage-listed causeway across the Suttor River on the Old Bowen Downs Road, now at St Anns Road, Mount Coolon, Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1876 by the Queensland Department of Public Works. It is also known as St Anns Crossing and Old Bowen Downs Road. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 18 September 2008.
Old Bowen Downs Road was established in the early 1860s as a teamster route between Port Denison (Bowen) and Bowen Downs Station near Aramac in central western Queensland. The road was in regular use until at least the late 1890s as a communication and supply line between the interior and the coast. While remnants of the road remain visible between Strathmore Station and Mount Douglas, the stone causeway built in 1876 over the Suttor River at St Anns remains largely intact as an example of early civil engineering stonework in northern Queensland.
The Kennedy district was first explored by Europeans in the mid-1840s when Ludwig Leichhardt ventured into the upper Burdekin Valley. The area was not opened for settlement until 1861 and by the end of that year pastoralists had taken up most of the runs in the region. These isolated western stations relied upon teamster routes for important communication and supply lines to the coastal centres of the Kennedy. One of these routes, which was established in the early 1860s and became known as the Bowen Downs Road, ran about 500 km from Bowen through Eton Vale, Strathmore, Heidelberg, Hidden Valley (now known as Old Hidden Valley), Scartwater, St Anns and Mount Douglas, then on to Bowen Downs through Bully Creek (in 2007 known as Bulliwallah).
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