Coalstoun Lakes

Coalstoun Lakes is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.

Coalstoun Lakes is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census the locality of Coalstoun Lakes had a population of 114 people.

The lakes (from which the district takes its name) were named by local pioneer, Nugent Wade Brown, in 1894. There are various theories as to the origin of the name. One is that Coalstoun is the corruption of an Aboriginal word Goanalganai. Another theory is that the name 'Coalstoun' is a corruption of the word 'Colstoun', which was the ancestral home of the Brown family in Scotland.Colstoun is located south of Edinburgh and remains in the Brown family. Nugent Wade Brown's father, John Brown (1787–1860), emigrated to the Colony of New South Wales and established a property named Colstoun near what is now Gresford in the Hunter Valley in 1838. According to Queensland Department of National Parks, Sport and Racing "The lakes were named after Coalstoun in Scotland by Wade Brun, manager of nearby Ban Ban Station." There is no doubt that Nugent Wade Brown and Wade Brun were the same person. His wife, Margaret Campbell-Antill, was an aunt of Major-General John Macquarie Antill .Coalstoun Lakes Cemetery is believed to be older than the town itself, as its earliest surviving inscription on a grave is dated 1899.Coalstoun Lakes State School opened on 25 July 1910.Brigalow Creek State School opened on 3 December 1913 and closed on 1924.Coalstoun Lakes Community Hall was originally built in 1916. After World War I, it was extended and renamed the Coalstoun Lakes Memorial Hall to commemorate those who served and died in the war.Mount Harvey State School opened on 24 January 1921 and closed on 31 October 1948.Coalstoun Lakes Post Office opened on 1 July 1927 (a receiving office had been open from 1910) and closed in 1976.On 31 July 1932 Archbishop James Duhig opened the Catholic church in Coalstoun Lakes.St Thomas' Anglican Church was dedicated on 30 December 1934 by Bishop Horace Henry Dixon.In the 2011 census, Coalstoun Lakes had a population of 423 people.In the 2016 census the locality of Coalstoun Lakes had a population of 114 people.