Preserving the past for the future generations of Australians
The Mill Point Archaeological ProjectMill Point is an historical archaeological site of recognised State significance located on the shores of Lake Cootharaba in the Great Sandy National Park, southeast Queensland. The forest of large Koori pines attracted the timber industry and settlement of the area began in the mid-1800s with sawmill operating until 1892. Over the 20 years of the sawmill operation, Mill Point grew into a small community of up to several hundred people which included the sawmill, workers houses, a school, shops, a hotel and a cemetery. The survival of extensive remnant material including stone artefact scatters, tramway, cemetery, dairy area, jetties and wharves has the potential to reveal information about pre-European Aboriginal lifeways, nineteenth and twentieth century life and burial practices at a company timber town in rural Queensland, and about timber extraction and processing.
References
Mill Point Archaeological Project web site
Brown, E. 2000 Cooloola Coast: Noosa to Fraser Island: The Aboriginal and Settlers Histories of a Unique Environment. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press.
Ulm, S. (ed.) 2004 Mill Point Archaeological Project Field Season Report 2004:1-4. Brisbane: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland.
Ulm, S. (ed.) 2005 Mill Point Archaeological Project Field Season Report 2005:1-4. Brisbane: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, University of Queensland.
Ulm, S. and J. Reid 2000 Index of dates from archaeological sites in Queensland. Queensland Archaeological Research 12:1-129.