Zillmere

Zillmere is a suburb inside the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is positioned 14 kilometres north of the Brisbane significant commercial enterprise district. The Turrbal Aborigines occupied the region north of Brisbane River, together with the place covered by way of Zillmere. With European settlement, the vicinity got here to be called Zillman's Waterholes, named after Johann Leopold Zillmann, a pioneering Lutheran missionary who served at the task station close by at Nundah.

In January 1872, the Brisbane Courier described Zillman's Waterholes as being located among Cabbage Tree Creek and Downfall Creek. It become settled with twenty-seven small farmers residing on the land. At the time there were "two chapels, a brickyard and pottery". The settlers grew pineapples, pigs and other small plants. After the North Coast Railway Line became extended to Petrie in 1888, the railway station servicing the region turned into named Zillmere.

By the time the primary housing estate was marketed in 1897, the vicinity changed into also being known as Zillmere. A slaughterhouse and curing works changed into established in 1898 by means of J.C. Hutton Pty Ltd to slaughter and system pigs from regional farms. During the 1950s, the Housing Commission reclaimed farmland to assemble prefabricated homes imported from France. This established Zillmere as a suburban centre. Migrant barracks near Church Road had been used to resettle put up-war European immigrants till they were destroyed via hearth within the mid 1950s.