We stayed in this small Darling Downs town on the way home after attending the recent Dayboro Mega Easter 2021 finding it was worth stopping in the town which is normally bypassed and saw it's beauty.
The town is west of Toowoomba and during nineteenth century prospered in wool and sheep, changing to dairying in the twentieth century and today is in mixed farming with sheep, cattle, cereal grains and cotton. The town is an important regional service centre.
Millmerran is located 206 km west of Brisbane and 407 m above sea-level. It lies 82 km south-west of Toowoomba on the Gore Highway.
The town is famous for the Camp Oven Festival on the long weekend in October.
There is a Museum that shows a "snapshot of Millmerran's local history; including our military service, pioneer lifestyles, local and family histories, pioneer photo gallery and the 'Water Baby' (a flood boat used by the Gore Family to traverse the flooded river." Of particular interest is Yandilla Station's 'Water Baby' which was a steam launch which, apart from saving the Gore family during floods, was used to ship produce along the Condamine River. It is hardly a baby as it is nearly 10m long and 2m high.
The town has a some of Historical Murals, there is a very useful brochure available at the museum which has a map identifying where the five Historical Murals are located and what each of them depicts. There is a mural on the Old Milmerran Butter Factory depicting the development of the local dairy industry; one on the outer wall of the Transport Depot depicting the evolution of transport from horse drawn drays through rail to modern trucks; one on the town reservoir depicting the early days of transporting water to Millmerran; on the swimming pool wall showing swimming costume fashions and the local water hole where people swam until an Olympic-size pool was built in 1966; and one on the Millmerran & District Historical Society wall depicting two traction engines which were imported from England in 1885. They are an effective visual history of the town and the district.
The cache container is small, contains a pen and note book, you DON'T need to enter private property to access it.
FTF Congratulations to baby&Mrsgopher