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Mango Hill (Qld.)
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DescriptionThe naming of Mango Hill is inextricably linked with the development of Anzac Avenue, one of many Australian 'avenues of honour' established after World War 1 to commemorate fallen soldiers. Work commenced on Anzac Avenue in December 1922. At that time, 25 returned soldiers were employed, but by March of the following year, the number had increased to 50. It was decided that an avenue of trees should also form part of the tribute and the first trees, two cocos palms, were planted at the entrance to the North Pine School of Arts, Petrie, by the Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan, on 2 March 1925. Although there are no official surviving records relating to the subsequent plantings in the Pine Rivers area, it has been estimated that about 1,800 trees were planted at 20 metre intervals on both sides of an 18 kilometre section of Anzac Avenue (formerly known as Redcliffe Road) between the School of Arts and Redcliffe.
As it would appear that mango trees were not among the species originally chosen for the Anzac Memorial Avenue project, the 700 metres of mango trees between the Bruce Highway and Kinsellas Road, planted in 1926, form a unique section of the Avenue. Since planting commenced, the memorial trees have been fragmented and many have been lost following construction and maintenance works and the duplication of Anzac Avenue. The remaining trees, however, are of cultural heritage significance to the State of Queensland.
Although the hill on Anzac Avenue, previously known as Freshwater Hill, became locally known as Mango Hill from the 1930s, the surrounding district was referred to as East Kallangur for several decades from this time. According to the late Eddie (Edwin Charles) Hyland, Pine Rivers Shire Council Clerk from 1948 until 1983, bus drivers working on the Petrie to Redcliffe service had unofficially applied the name Mango Hill to the district in the absence of any other appropriate name in common usage. Hyland introduced the name into Council documents in the 1950s, thus ensuring that it was eventually officially sanctioned; the formal gazettal of the locality name did not take place until 1980.
During pre-European times, the Mango Hill region was a buffer zone between two of the major Aboriginal linguistic groups of south-east Queensland: the North Pine clan of the Turrbal people occupied the area to the south; the Ningy Ningy clan of the Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) people occupied territory to the north and east. As European settlement of the Pine Rivers region had to await the closure of the Moreton Bay convict settlement in 1842, it was not until the middle of 1843 that the Griffin family, by establishing the Whiteside run on the north bank of the North Pine River, became the first free settlers to occupy Pine Rivers land. The Whiteside run, which extended from the D’Aguilar Range to the coast and from the north bank of the North Pine River nearly to the Caboolture River, initially incorporated the Mango Hill area.
Although land survey and subsequent closer settlement had extended into the Mango Hill region by the early 1870s, the area remained something of a ‘no man’s land’, and this situation prevailed until comparatively recent times. The prime target of early settlers was the highly fertile agricultural land that was to be found along the North and South Pine Rivers; the Mango Hill area was of interest only to those settlers wanting to graze a few cattle in the vicinity. During later times, a few successful dairy farmers, who owned established farms on or near the North and South Pine Rivers, subsequently purchased paddocks in less favoured areas merely to run a few ‘dry cattle’.
By the early 1970s, most of the Mango Hill area was controlled by Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM) Holdings. The Company established extensive plantings of exotic slash pine (Pinus elliottii). This was another fairly unsuccessful experiment. Also around the early 1970s, a small, isolated residential estate, which later became known as the Mango Hill Village and now contains about 300 houses, was established west of Kinsellas Road West on a triangular-shaped parcel of land, originally the north-eastern corner of Campbell’s Portion 513 land. The Mango Hill Progress Association, formed in July 1986, worked vigorously with the Pine Rivers Shire Council to achieve positive results for the residents of this area which included the sealing of roads, the development of the Danzy Buchanan Park, the construction of concrete drains to ease flooding problems, building a tennis court, a basketball court and a community hall. During the 1990s, the Mango Hill Estate, with about 500 houses, was developed on the southern side of Anzac Avenue with Halpine Lake as its centrepiece.
As it would appear that mango trees were not among the species originally chosen for the Anzac Memorial Avenue project, the 700 metres of mango trees between the Bruce Highway and Kinsellas Road, planted in 1926, form a unique section of the Avenue. Since planting commenced, the memorial trees have been fragmented and many have been lost following construction and maintenance works and the duplication of Anzac Avenue. The remaining trees, however, are of cultural heritage significance to the State of Queensland.
Although the hill on Anzac Avenue, previously known as Freshwater Hill, became locally known as Mango Hill from the 1930s, the surrounding district was referred to as East Kallangur for several decades from this time. According to the late Eddie (Edwin Charles) Hyland, Pine Rivers Shire Council Clerk from 1948 until 1983, bus drivers working on the Petrie to Redcliffe service had unofficially applied the name Mango Hill to the district in the absence of any other appropriate name in common usage. Hyland introduced the name into Council documents in the 1950s, thus ensuring that it was eventually officially sanctioned; the formal gazettal of the locality name did not take place until 1980.
During pre-European times, the Mango Hill region was a buffer zone between two of the major Aboriginal linguistic groups of south-east Queensland: the North Pine clan of the Turrbal people occupied the area to the south; the Ningy Ningy clan of the Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) people occupied territory to the north and east. As European settlement of the Pine Rivers region had to await the closure of the Moreton Bay convict settlement in 1842, it was not until the middle of 1843 that the Griffin family, by establishing the Whiteside run on the north bank of the North Pine River, became the first free settlers to occupy Pine Rivers land. The Whiteside run, which extended from the D’Aguilar Range to the coast and from the north bank of the North Pine River nearly to the Caboolture River, initially incorporated the Mango Hill area.
Although land survey and subsequent closer settlement had extended into the Mango Hill region by the early 1870s, the area remained something of a ‘no man’s land’, and this situation prevailed until comparatively recent times. The prime target of early settlers was the highly fertile agricultural land that was to be found along the North and South Pine Rivers; the Mango Hill area was of interest only to those settlers wanting to graze a few cattle in the vicinity. During later times, a few successful dairy farmers, who owned established farms on or near the North and South Pine Rivers, subsequently purchased paddocks in less favoured areas merely to run a few ‘dry cattle’.
By the early 1970s, most of the Mango Hill area was controlled by Australian Paper Manufacturers (APM) Holdings. The Company established extensive plantings of exotic slash pine (Pinus elliottii). This was another fairly unsuccessful experiment. Also around the early 1970s, a small, isolated residential estate, which later became known as the Mango Hill Village and now contains about 300 houses, was established west of Kinsellas Road West on a triangular-shaped parcel of land, originally the north-eastern corner of Campbell’s Portion 513 land. The Mango Hill Progress Association, formed in July 1986, worked vigorously with the Pine Rivers Shire Council to achieve positive results for the residents of this area which included the sealing of roads, the development of the Danzy Buchanan Park, the construction of concrete drains to ease flooding problems, building a tennis court, a basketball court and a community hall. During the 1990s, the Mango Hill Estate, with about 500 houses, was developed on the southern side of Anzac Avenue with Halpine Lake as its centrepiece.
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Mango Hill (Qld.). Moreton Bay Our Story, accessed 09/12/2024, https://ourstory.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/nodes/view/18576
