LJ Hooker Narangba QLD

Narangba, in its Aboriginal origin meant small ridge and describes the area where the railway station and associated township were situated. Earlier, it was part of an area referred to as Stony Creek. Only later was it changed to Narangba.

An award-winning Development Control Plan has resulted in major residential interest in the areas of Narangba and Burpengary, with infrastructure matching the growth.

An industrial estate which provides all services required by manufacturing and general, takes full advantage of the shire’s transport links, with both sides of Bruce Highway.

Before European settlement, the district of Narangba was a hunting ground for the aboriginal tribes of the Pine and Caboolture districts. Early accounts describe the countryside as being like a big park with huge eucalyptus trees spaced about 50 m apart with grass in between and rainforest along the creeks and creek flats.It was only when these trees were felled that the dormant seeds sprang into life causing dense regrowth. An account of the murder of Mrs Shannon at gregor’s place on the upper reaches of Burpengary Creek tells how the Griffith brothers galloped their horses from Whiteside to the scene of the murder, which implies that the countryside was not covered the dense bush as see it today, in places where such bush still exists.

At about the same time as Narangba was progressing, an escaped convict named ‘Shake ‘Brown abducted a young aboriginal woman from the aboriginal camp in Victoria Park in Brisbane, and took her north to the Noose area. At Noosa some of the relatives of the woman took her from brown, and so he proceeded back to Brisbane along the north road. On reaching the crossing over the creek near Young’s property, he was met by members of the ex- girlfriend’s tribe who killed him and dumped his body in the creek. Later on a bullock dray from Durundur driven by a couple of men from the station found Brown’s body, and that is how Brown’s Creek was named.

The event that had the greatest effect in shaping the district of Narangba, and the event often passed over by writers of local history was the coming of the railway, for without the railway there would have been no village develop. The railway was opened from Brisbane to Northgate on 11 May 1882, Northgate to Petrie 1 march 1888 and Petrie to Caboolture 11 June 1888. The railway station was first called Sidling Creek, and later changed to Narangba. All the locally produce could now be transported by rail. Travel was no longer by road, but the people could travel to and from Brisbane by rail in one day, instead of three days for the return trip by horse drawn vehicle. There being no electricity in those days, all cooking was done on wood burning stove and demand for firewood was another local industry that sprang up. Dry wood was cut into blocks and loaded into railway wagons for the wood depots of Brisbane. Big logs for sawmills were hauled in on bullocks wagons, and loaded onto timber wagons for sawmills at Albion and other mills built near railways. The mail service was greatly improved, and the station master was also the postmaster and State and Commonwealth representative of the district. A gang of line maintenance men were stationed in the area, and they, with their families, provided the nucleus of the village. The birth of Narangba was really the coming of the railway in 1888, just 100 years after the settlement at Port Jackson by Captain Phillip.

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