Welcome

Did you know that Gracemere once had six Hotels and it was the first place to have a showgrounds before Rockhampton had one.  The Archer Brothers also have a lot of history and over the coming months we hope to bring a lot of this information to our Website.  If you have any relevant information that makes interesting reading please email it to me at  j.bailey7@bigpond.com so I can continue to make this interesting for people to catch up on our history. 

Old photos can tell many stories if accompanied with a caption saying what it is and where it was situated.

More information can be found by typing in Trove History which will bring up a very interesting site to search the history of many places and things in and around this area.                    

Gracemere State School

This school is remarkable as it celebrates 150 years and is one of the oldest schools in Australia.  Celebrations will take place on the 10th, 11th and 12th of September 2021 with the main celebrations on the Saturday 11th September 2021.

Anyone who has new information relating to the past 25 years is asked to pass it on to Council for inclusion in the book that will be released in February 2022.

Fitzroy Shire Council

Back in 1902 the Government of the day decided to setup Shires in place of Divisional Boards and the Fitzroy Shire Council held it's first meeting on the 14 April 1903 with the Chairman being W. Wells.  This building was in Denison Street Rockhampton until a new one was built on Quay Street and the Shire Boundries remained until 2003.  The main concerns of the Councillors was roads, rates and rubbish and it is much the same these days.