Waruma Dam, constructed in 1986, this dam has become a popular picnic and skiing resort, it has a capacity of 185,000 megalitres when full, and supplies water to the Burnett Valley, Eidsvold
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Moreton Street, Eidsvold
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Condoleons Store, Moreton Street, Eidsvold
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Gold Mine, Eidsvold
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Eidsvold and Eidsvold Shire
Eidsvold, a rural town, is 160 km west of Maryborough, between Mundubbera and Monto.
The Eidsvold area was explored by Thomas Archer, one of five sons of William Archer who had emigrated from Scotland to Norway in 1825. Three of the sons emigrated to Australia in the 1830s. Thomas Archer took up a pastoral run in 1848, naming it Eidsvold after the Norwegian town where the constitution of Norway was signed in 1814 and from where the Archer family had emigrated. The family's Eidsvold Homestead (1850) is listed on the Queensland heritage register.
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Centenary Souvenir 1848-1948 embracing the districts of Gayndah, Mundubbera, Eidsvold and Monto, Brisbane, William Brooks, 1948
Eidsvold Goldfields, 1887-1987: centenary souvenir, Eidsvold, 1987
Jim Stewart and Shirley Taylor, Pictures from the past: a photographic history of Eidsvold Shire, Eidsvold Shire Council, 2001
Einasleigh entry
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