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Traveston Powder Magazine blasts into Heritage Register
An 1887 brick powder magazine, located on Traveston Road south of the Traveston Railway Station, has been entered in the Queensland Heritage Register.
Queensland Heritage Council (QHC) Chair, Professor Peter Coaldrake, said the former magazine was a rare surviving example of the infrastructure associated with Gympie’s mining heyday.
“Built in Gympie in 1887, the Traveston Powder Magazine is important surviving evidence of the deep-reef mining phase of gold mining in Gympie, the site of Queensland’s first major productive goldfield,” Professor Coaldrake said.
“It is one of few surviving powder magazines from a late 19th century Queensland goldfield.
“The magazine was relocated from Gympie to Traveston in 1898 and eventually became a Soldiers’ Memorial Hall in 1923.
“This later use as a memorial hall demonstrates the Australian practice of commemorating the sacrifices of World War I and World War II with memorial halls and Honour Boards.
“It also demonstrates the practicality of small farming communities regarding the reuse of buildings.”
Professor Coaldrake said the hall still enjoyed frequent use by the local community, who had been very supportive of the heritage listing.
“The Traveston Powder Magazine remains a good example of an 1880s brick powder magazine of standard proportions, retaining most of its sturdy perimeter walls and all of its narrow solid timber windows,” he said.
“Its location next to a railway line, some 18km south of Gympie, also demonstrates the government practice of moving explosives by rail and storing explosive hazards at a distance from population concentrations.”
The Traveston 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.