Gregory

Gregory is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia.

Gregory is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Gregory had a population of 72 people.

Gregory Post Office opened on 2 May 1878 and closed in 1894.The Gregory Downs pastoral station was established in 1876 by the Watson brothers (Harry F. Watson, Sidney Grandison Watson and Robert McGregor Watson)who travelled overland with approximately 900 cattle. They liked the clear running water in the Gregory River and settled at a crossing point of the river with their cattle on the western bank and their homestead on the eastern bank. In the late 1800s they built the Gregory Downs Hotel and Store near the homestead (18.6497°N 139.2533°E? / 18.6497; 139.2533? (Gregory Downs Hotel)), but eventually decided that they found the travellers too much of a nuisance and so they relocated their homestead onto the western bank of the river (18.6417°S 139.2517°E? / -18.6417; 139.2517? (Gregory Downs homestead)). There was a coach service from the hotel to Burketown. The hotel also served as a post for the mounted police.The town had a population of 40 people in 2008.In 2013, the town was renamed from Gregory Downs to Gregory.