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HistoryParents first met to advocate a school in upper Tarampa and Lowood area on the 20th of January 1881 at Tarampa. A committee was formed and chose a site half-a-mile from the Brisbane River. A substantial weatherboard shingle-roofed and timber-floored building was erected by A.F.O Zerneke was already on site and only needed a window. As the committee obtained furniture and the Department approved the arrangements.

The committee supported P. Weehrenquist, private tutor on Bolden’s Northbrook station as the school teacher. He opened the upper Tarampa school on the 29th of June 1881 with 19 students, considering that the corn picking season was at its height.

There was obvious confusion with Tarampa School, so the teacher suggested Cairnhill as a name, which the Department accepted.

Perhaps it was the fact that twenty-six out of thirty students could not speak English. On the 17th of May 1997, a public meeting was held to advocate the erection of a new school building. A new 2-acre site was selected. The new building was ready for occupancy by March 1889. The new school opened on the 1st of April in 1889 with Henry Lawson (not the poet) as the teacher for forty-seven students. The name of the school as changed to Lowood in October 1891.

The Lowood Butter Factory was opened in 1895 stimulating prosperity and the school as always overcrowded. The building was classed insufficient for the eighty students. Additions to the school building, a kitchen and covered way were constructed in 1892 and the committee raised 101 pounds as their contribution. There were two teachers and ninety-three students. The recovery from the flood also increased the attendance. A play shed was built, and the teacher’s residence was extended for 42 pounds. This shed was considered for lessons in 1900 as the enrolment was up to 140 in a school built for a hundred and pupil teacher’s taught children on the verandas. However, extensions were not done for another twenty years and cost 603 pounds in 1919.Other NamesCairnhill State SchoolTypeSchoolsTownsLowood & SurroundsReferencesLowood School Factsheet. Esk: Somerset Regional Council. (Held at Esk Library).

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SubjectsSchoolsEducationAgricultureDairiesCreameriesCollectionSchoolsRelated PlacesLowoodUpper TarampaBrisbane RiverTarampa SchoolRelated BusinessesLowood Butter FactoryBolden’s Northbrook stationRelated PeopleA.F.O ZernekeP. WeehrenquistHenry LawsonAddress Peace Street, Lowood, Queensland, 4311, AustraliaGeo Coordinates^[1]

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