Description
Halifax is a town and a coastal locality in the Shire of Hinchinbrook, Queensland, Australia.
Halifax is a town and a coastal locality in the Shire of Hinchinbrook, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Halifax had a population of 462 people.
History
August Anderssen, a blacksmith, purchased the land in 1880 after which time the land was turned into sugar plantations.Herbert River Provisional School opened on 24 September 1883. It was renamed Halifax Provisional School in 1885. It became Halifax State School in 1891.Halifax Post Office opened on 23 August 1886.St Peter's Catholic School opened in 1927.Halifax Methodist Church opened in 1964. When the Methodist Church amalgamated into the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977, it became Halifax Uniting Church.At the 2011 census, Halifax had a population of 431.Many homes in Halifax were flooded following extremely heavy rain in March 2018.
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Population: 101-1000
Time zone: UTC +10:00
Area: 37.736 km2
Elevation: 4-10 metres
Town elevation: 10 m
Population number: 462
Local Government Area: Hinchinbrook Shire Council
Attribution
This article contains content imported from the English Wikipedia article on Halifax, Queensland