Centenary Park, Redcliffe (Qld.)

Centenary Park was situated roughly in the area where the RSL building and the council chambers are now, on Portion 226. In October 1924, Mayor J. B. dunn moved in council that the reserve adjoining the Counicl Chambers should be named Centenary Park to commemorate the landing of the first white settlers in what is now Queensland. The motion was carried unanimously. [Slaughter, L. E., Redcliffe's 160 Years, p92] Centenary Park was for many years a camping area and also contained the original public tennis court. The land comprising Centenary Park was swallowed up by the road changes and the new council buildings in the 1960s. -- Redcliffe : Looking at the landscape by Pat Gee acknowledging the work of Jack Stapleton and Pat Fields