Peachester

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

Peachester is a rural town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census the locality of Peachester had a population of 1,357 people.

Peachester was named when the town was surveyed in 1888 by William Embury Hill. The name refers to a peach tree which was growing at the crossing of the Stanley River.A public hall was built at the town in 1889.Peachester Provisional School opened on 19 April 1892 in the public hall. Due to low student numbers it closed in 1893 but reopened in 1894. On 2 May 1910 it became Peachester State School.Early industries included dairying, timber felling for Grigor's sawmill.On Wednesday 20 June 1906 the Venerable H. F. Le Fanu, Archdeacon of Toowoomba performed a stump capping ceremony for the new Anglican church. St Andrew's Anglican church was dedicated on 1 January 1908 by Archdeacon Le Fanu. The church was destroyed on New Year's Day 1 June 1963 by Tropical Cyclone Annie and was not rebuilt.Peachester Post Office opened by 1918 (a receiving office had been open from 1895) and closed in 1974.Between the 1930s and 1950s, Peachester was known as the home of Inigo Jones, the long range weather forecaster.A fruit case factory for fruit growers operated in the 1920s and post World War II years.At the 2006 census, Peachester had a population of 452.In the 2011 census, Peachester had a population of 1,259 people.In the 2016 census the locality of Peachester had a population of 1,357 people.