Cannon Hill
Cannon Hill, a residential suburb on Wynnum Road, is 5 km in a direct line from central Brisbane. Travel by rail or road is considerably further.
The name is variously thought to have come from two tree stumps noted by a surveyor as resembling cannon or, more likely, from Cannon Hill House (1867) built by an early European settler in Wynnum Road opposite the present primary school.
Ronietta Wakefield, Cannon Hill School of Arts 75th anniversary 1923-1998, Cannon Hill, School of Arts Trustees, 1998
Colin Mercer and Robin Trotter, Historical study: Cannon Hill saleyards, Brisbane, Department of Housing, Local Government and Planning, 1995
John Gilfoyle, Remember Cannon Hill, Moorooka, Boolarong, 2009
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