St Mathew's Anglican Church, Drayton
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The Royal Bull's Head Inn, Drayton, a Property of the National Trust of Queensland, built in 1859 by William Horton, the inn was once a lively meeting place for the squatters of the Darling Downs
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The Royal Bull's Head Inn, Drayton
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Drayton and Drayton Shire
Drayton, formerly a rural town and now an outer suburb of Toowoomba, is 6 km south-west of Toowoomba's city centre.
Originally known as The Springs, Drayton began as a camping place near the intersection of the Eton Vale, Westbrook and Gowrie pastoral stations in about 1842. A European settler at The Springs, Thomas Alford, named his house, store and post office Drayton after his birthplace in Somerset, the name ultimately being applied to the emergent township.
Further Reading:
Drayton State School 150 years: 1851-2001, Drayton State School, 2001
Drayton and Toowoomba cemetery: our backyard revisited, Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History Society, 2013
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