Samsonvale
Samsonvale is a rural/residential suburb of the former Pine Rivers Shire, 30 km north of central Brisbane. Mount Samson (690m) is at an eastern point of the D'Aguilar Range, about four km north-east of Mount Glorious. Mount Samson is shown on surveyor Robert Dixon's map of the Moreton Bay district, but the origin of its name is apparently unrecorded.
Further Reading:
Leith Barter, Pioneering the pine: a short history of the Pine Rivers Shire, Strathpine, Pine Rivers Shire Council, 2005
Lawrence Smith, Tracks and times: a history of the Pine Rivers district, Pine Rivers Shire Council, 1988
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