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Explosive new entry for Heritage Register
The Mount Perry Powder Magazine, located in a paddock to the east of Sandy Camp Road about 3.5km north of the town, has been entered in the Queensland Heritage Register.
Queensland Heritage Council (QHC) Chair, Professor Peter Coaldrake, said the brick and stone gunpowder magazine, constructed by the Queensland Government in 1874, is a rare surviving example of built mining infrastructure from the heyday of Mount Perry.
“Used to store gunpowder for use in the local mine, the Mount Perry Powder Magazine is one of only three known surviving 19th century government powder magazines in Queensland and also the oldest known example, so therefore somewhat rare,” Professor Coaldrake said.
“Despite lacking floors and roof and therefore incomplete, the solidly constructed walls, narrow windows and remnant copper fittings of the Mount Perry Powder Magazine are all standard features of Queensland government powder magazines of the 19th century.
“The isolated location of the structure demonstrates the practice of locating gunpowder at a safe distance from population centres.”
Professor Coaldrake said the structure was important in demonstrating the first copper mining boom period at Mount Perry during the 1870s.
“The 1870s was a period of rapid expansion for Queensland mining and Mount Perry was an important mining centre during this decade, and then again between 1901 and 1913,” he said.
“Demonstrating the importance of the town’s mining industry to Queensland’s economy, Mount Perry was selected as the destination of one of three mining-related railway lines approved by the government in 1877.
“However, when the railway reached Mount Perry in 1884, the anticipated mining boom did not occur and copper prices remained low.
“After attempts to revive mining in Mount Perry during the 1880s, the town boomed again between 1901 and 1914,” he said.
“The former Mount Perry Powder Magazine is an evocative structure which stands alone in a grassy field and the peace and solitude of the site provides a contrast with the hectic activity which would have accompanied copper mining at Mount Perry.”
The Mount Perry Powder Magazine was identified through the Statewide heritage survey being conducted by the Department of Environment and Resource Management’s Heritage Branch.
The Queensland Heritage Council is the State’s independent peak body and advisor on heritage matters and determines what places are entered in the Queensland Heritage Register.
Places that are entered in the Heritage Register are considered of importance to Queensland’s history and are protected under heritage legislation.