Stage Number: MBNH.07.02.18
Group: Western
Local Study Area: Toowong-St Lucia-Indooroopilly
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Street Address: Sherwood Road, Toowong
Latitude & Longitude: -27.48591667,152.99236111
Time Link: 1863
Map Link: 1865
Image Time Point: 1865
Was surveyed around 1863 by early Moreton Bay surveyor James Warner. It was situated where the Toowong village tower is today and included what became Toowong railway station in 1875. The name Nona disappeared to be replaced by Toowong, the Aboriginal Tu-wong, the name of the black goat-sucker bird or koel (Eudynamys cyanocephala)
Toowong History Group Inc.
QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 1 chain to the inch. Plan of subdivision of section 30 City of Brisbane. 1 chain to an inch. Surveyor General’s Office, Brisbane.(quarter-size). 634488
