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In the early 1900s, people began riding up to Mt Glorious from the eastern valleys below and began growing bananas and other crops. The first building at Mt Glorious, erected around 1909, was Tom Lindsay’s “Gentle Breezes”. In October 2009 the Mt Glorious community celebrated the centenary of European settlement at Mt Glorious. Preparation for the centenary included some historical research and gathering of stories concerning Lindsay and others who followed. The following is an extract from resident Ruth Lowe’s, Tom Lindsay: first settler’s house on Mt Glorious, Centenary celebrations 2009. "Helen Horton’s book Brisbane’s Back Door mentions the early development of Mt Glorious and describes how Thomas Lindsay “rode up the Cedar Creek spur by Mt O’Reilly to a place he liked on the top of the range. He called it Gentle Breezes.” After taking over the selection in 1908 he moved up to the land and lived in a tent. He appears to have worked, with the help of Charles Patrick in clearing the land and putting in a dairy herd. Helen Horton continues: “Later Charles Patrick accepted Lindsay’s further offer to take his family and live in the five-roomed slab hut, with separate kitchen, which had by this time replaced the tent. (See above photo). With a verandah at the front, it was reasonably comfortable, but it had a separate kitchen made of stringybark sheets that was quite some distance from the hut.” “The first house on Mt Glorious was built ‘around 1911’ [erased and replaced with ‘1909’] by Mr Tom Lindsay. The house took him from 12 to 18 months to build …” The letter continues: …”the family accepted the offer and moved to Mt Glorious around 1912.” At that time their family numbered eight children. In his description of the eventful wagon trip up the mountain with the furniture Bill Patrick mentions ‘the baby’, who was probably Phyllis Patrick, born 16.5.1910, mother of Pat Berlin the author of the letter." Source: www.mtnebo.org.au/history-of-european-settlement/

O'Reilly is a rural locality in the Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. O'Reilly is located on Queensland's border with New South Wales on the elevated Lamington Plateau. The plateau remains heavily vegetated by Gondwana Rainforests.[3] Almost the whole of the locality is within the Lamington National Park, except for the Boonyong pastoral property (28.2183°S 153.1165°E) and the O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat mountain resort (28.2305°S 153.1304°E).[3] The Lamington National Park contains a network of walking tracks, lookouts and numerous waterfalls. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Reilly,_Queensland

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How elegant they were at that time