Conondale

Conondale is a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

Conondale is a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Conondale had a population of 858 people.

The town takes its name from a pastoral run assigned by pastoralist Donald Tuach McKenzie when it took up the property on 6 October 1851. It is thought he named it after the Conon River in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.In November 1906, a sub-division of the former Conondale Station, the Conondale Estate, described as 14,000 acres in one of the best agricultural and dairying districts in the Commonwealth, was advertised for sale. The auctioneers offered to forward an illustrated lithograph to any address. As a new departure in the sub-division of estates, a butter factory was built by the vendors as part of the sale. However, the butter factory never operated and the building was later demolished, with the timbers used for the construction of a house at Moffat Beach.Conondale Provisional School and Flagstone Creek Provisional Schools opened in September 1912 both on a half-time basis, meaning that a single teacher was shared between the two schools. In 1913 Flagstone Creek Provisional School was renamed Conondale South Provisional School. In 1915 Conondale South Provisional School was closed and Conondale Provisional School continued with the teacher on a full-time basis. It experienced occasional closures due to lack of students or unavailability of a teacher. In 1933 it became Conondale State School.Conondale Post Office opened by 1949 (a receiving office or Telegraph office had been open from 1904) and closed in 1974.