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Early Settlement Yeppoon & Capricorn Coast by Andrew Thompson
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recommend you first read: - History of Rockhampton & Environs -
The Darumbal Tribes - History of Rockhampton & Environs - Early
Settlement The Ross Family European settlers had claimed most of
the land around Raspberry Creek (near Byfield) and Cawarral in
the coastal hinterlands east of In 1865, the Ross family reached
the coast and staked out large tracts of land. Andrew Ross and
his sons, Robert and James soon owned most of the seafront land
from Raspberry Creek near Byfield to the Fitzroy River, an area
that nowadays constitutes most of the Capricorn Coast. Robert
Ross, who would go on to both fame and infamy, set himself up at
present-day Taranganba