Mrs Janet O’Connor opened the Duporth school, a girls’ school, in 1885. It was continued by her daughters until 1920. Around 1925 the school was purchased and operated by the Ursuline Order of nuns. It ran until 1957.
Geographic Description 1: Outside The Green Belt
Geographic Description 2: Brisbane River; Oxley Creek
Geographic Description 3: Flood Gullies (Major); Flood Plains; Hills; Ridgeline (Seventeen Mile Road)
Citations
Oxley-Chemler History Group Inc.
Image Citations
Female Students from Duporth School, Oxley, Brisbane, Ca. 1913. (9999). SLQ