Taabinga Homestead
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Taabinga Homestead, 2002
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| Location | 7 Old Taabinga Road, Haly Creek, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 26°39′16″S 151°45′01″E / 26.6545°S 151.7503°ECoordinates: 26°39′16″S 151°45′01″E / 26.6545°S 151.7503°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1840s - 1910 |
| Official name: Taabinga Homestead | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600647 |
| Significant period | 1840s-1850s (historical) 1840s-1910s (fabric) |
| Significant components | out building/s, garden/grounds, kitchen/kitchen house, tennis court, meat house, graveyard, stables, residential accommodation - main house, dairy/creamery, garage, chimney/chimney stack |
 Location of Taabinga Homestead in Queensland
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Taabinga Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at 7 Old Taabinga Road, Haly Creek, South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1846 to 1864. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
The homestead is the main building of the 318 acre Taabinga Station, and now operates as a homestay, providing bed and breakfast accommodation to tourists, as well as regular farm tours.
The Taabinga run was originally taken up by the Haly brothers in the 1840s and the main residence was developed during the 1840s and 1850s. Most of the outbuildings on the homestead site were built during the 1890s and early 1900s when Arthur Youngman was owner of the property.
The explorations of Henry Stuart Russell in the Burnett district during the early 1840s mark a watershed in the pastoral history of Queensland. Following the closure of Moreton Bay as a penal colony, Russell led the search for land north of Brisbane and the Darling Downs. He first arrived in Queensland in 1840 to stay with cousins on the Darling Downs and by 1842 he was the first European to pass through what was later to become Taabinga. Russell's expeditions in the Burnett had opened a district of rich grazing and agricultural land, and in 1843 he took up Burrandowan run on the Borne River as a sheep station.
Other squatters soon followed Russell and it was brothers Charles Robert and William O'Grady Haly who first settled on Taabinga station. The Haly brothers had arrived in Australia from Newfoundland in 1838 and settled on the Hunter River before moving to the Gwydir River. From there they assembled a team of men and some 5,000 sheep and travelled north through the Logan district during the early 1840s in search of land. Shearing records indicate the Haly brothers had settled Taabinga station by 1846, at which time it was an established sheep property covering 305 square miles. Despite their early occupation of the land, the Haly brothers did not apply for a lease over Taabinga until June 1850, which was granted on 10 February 1852 for a term of 14 years. By 1853, Charles Haly was at Tamrookum in the Logan district, where he married Rosa Harpur and was to remain until at least 1854. During this time it is most likely that either William Haly or a superintendent was managing Taabinga station. When William Haly returned to England in 1859, Charles became sole lessee of Taabinga and the following year was elected to the first Queensland Legislative Assembly as the member for the Burnett. In 1863 he acquired a freehold over 314 acres of the run and remained at the property until 1875 when he moved to Dalby.
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