Gowrie Junction, Queensland
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Gowrie Junction is a town and locality north-west of Toowoomba
. It contains a small shop, a school and a community hall. A shopping centre is also in the planning stages. The residents of Gowrie Junction funded and built the town recreational hall by themselves, largely through the efforts of the local progress association. At the 2006 census
, Gowrie Junction had a population of 1,217.
Possibly Gowrie Junction's best known resident remains Frank Riethmuller
, born in 1884 in Glenvale
outside Toowoomba, who taught at Gowrie Junction's primary school from 1898 to 1905. He probably stayed with his newly married sister, Sophia, whose husband August Bischof had a farm at Gowrie Junction. Riethmuller went on to become Australia's second-best-known rose breeder. He bred 'Carabella,' which is to be seen in country towns all round Australia.
Toowoomba, Queensland
Toowoomba is a city in Southern Queensland, Australia. It is located west of Queensland's capital city, Brisbane. With an estimated district population of 128,600, Toowoomba is Australia's second largest inland city and its largest non-capital inland city...
. It contains a small shop, a school and a community hall. A shopping centre is also in the planning stages. The residents of Gowrie Junction funded and built the town recreational hall by themselves, largely through the efforts of the local progress association. At the 2006 census
Census in Australia
The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...
, Gowrie Junction had a population of 1,217.
Possibly Gowrie Junction's best known resident remains Frank Riethmuller
Frank Riethmuller
Frank Riethmuller was an Australian rose breeder. -Toowoomba:The last child of poor German immigrant farmers, Francis Lewis Riethmuller was born on 10 February 1884 in Glenvale, then a village near Toowoomba, Queensland. When dealing with Germans, he reverted to writing Riethmüller...
, born in 1884 in Glenvale
Glenvale, Queensland
Glenvale is a district in Queensland, Australia, that comprises part of greater Toowoomba's western suburbs. During the 1990s and 2000s it was a hive of new construction, with new housing estates opening almost monthly.-History:...
outside Toowoomba, who taught at Gowrie Junction's primary school from 1898 to 1905. He probably stayed with his newly married sister, Sophia, whose husband August Bischof had a farm at Gowrie Junction. Riethmuller went on to become Australia's second-best-known rose breeder. He bred 'Carabella,' which is to be seen in country towns all round Australia.