History Of Ipswich

Ipswich has a rich and colourful history that has remarkably helped in making Queensland as it is today. Captain Patrick Logan knew that Ipswich would make a perfect settlement in 1826, when he discovered hills of limestone along the banks of the Bremer River. He was excited by his findings and sent an overseer and five convicts to quarry limestone and to erect a lime-burning facility in the following year and proudly announced the settlement to be know as ‘Limestone.’

Ipswich was originally a convict settlement from 1827 until 1839 with Captain Logan Commandant of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement. With only a few convicts at the camp, Ipswich mostly supplied lime and burnt in kilns by convicts, then floated down the Bremer River and on to Brisbane to help with the ever-increasing building trade. “I

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