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About Holland Park, QLD

Holland Park is a southern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Holland Park had a population of 8,111 people. == Geography == Holland Park is 9.3 kilometres (5.8 mi) by road south-east of the Brisbane GPO. It is mostly residential, with some commercial areas along Logan Road. Holland Park is an older suburb made of largely post-World War II wooden homes. Logan Road bisects the slightly hilly suburb. There are a number of schools and parks in the suburb and a retail zone with shops and a public bar. It is also home to the Mount Thompson crematorium, Queensland oldest crematorium, in Nursery Road. == History == The Holland Park area was settled from 1865 with the land used mainly used for farming.Holland Park owes its name to merchant Julius Holland (1844–1884) who, for many years, owned a large area of scrub land which he had bought on speculation. The estate stretched from what is now Abbotsleigh Street to the vicinity of Arnold Street, and from Logan Road back to Cavendish Road.In the early 1880s, almost 300 First Nations persons from afar as Ipswich would meet on a creek bank in the suburb for a corroboree.In 1882, Julius Holland sold "Holland Estate". These 150 acres (61 ha) of scrub, in the true sense, was Holland Park proper; but as estates in the vicinity also adopted the Holland Park name, an elastic meaning has been given to the name, and a much more extensive area is now comprehensively known as Holland Park.