Boonah

Boonah is both a town and an area of the Scenic Rim Region in south-eastern Queensland, Australia. At the 2011 registration, the town had a populace of 2,474. The historical backdrop of Boonah township is associated with the close-by settlement of Dugandan which was named after a peaceful kept running of a similar name that was taken up in August 1844 by Macquarie McDonald and his sibling Campbell Livingstone McDonald. Dugandan was one of the most punctual peaceful possessions in Queensland. In its initial years the territory was supplied with sheep yet the locale was found to be appropriate for cows and after some time wound up eminent for the nature of its hamburger and dairy herds.

Adjacent to the property of Dugandan was Coochin station. In 1873, some portion of the Coochin peaceful run was procured by Frederick Macarthur Bowman who named his property Denelgin. Frederick Bowman exploited the reasonableness of the territory for cows and is viewed as one of the dairying pioneers of the district. Differently known as Dugandan Scrub and Blumbergville, Boonah was additionally situated inside the limits of the early Dugandan property. Following the presentation of the Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1868 and the subdivision of the huge peaceful runs, the settlement fell inside the limits of another 320 section of land property procured by John Hooper in 1878.