Electrician Mount Gravatt

About Mount Gravatt, QLD

Mount Gravatt is a southern suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and a prominent hill and lookout within this suburb (27.5428°S 153.0728°E / -27.5428; 153.0728 (Mount Gravatt (mountain))). In the 2016 census, Mount Gravatt had a population of 3,366 people. == Geography == The suburb is situated in the south-east of the city and was one of Brisbane's largest. This was before it was divided into Mount Gravatt East, Upper Mount Gravatt and Mount Gravatt South; the last being renamed Wishart in the early 1990s. == History == Prior to European settlement in the 19th century, Mount Gravatt was inhabited by the Indigenous Yuggera and Turrbal peoples for thousands of years, and is known as kagarr-mabul, kaggur-mabul, caggara-mahbill, or kaggur-madul, which means "place of echidnas" in the local Indigenous dialect.The hill was named Mount Gravatt in 1840 by surveyor Robert Dixon after Lieutenant George Gravatt who was the commander of the Moreton Bay penal colony from May to July 1839. Gravatt was later transferred to India where he died in 1843.Mount Gravatt State School was opened on 29 June 1874.In 1888, 3 sections of 107 allotments, 6 and 7 acres were advertised to be auctioned on 24 November as 'The Abdington Estate Mount Gravatt'. Between 1953 and 1969 electric trams ran from the suburb into Brisbane's Central Business District (CBD) along Logan Road. As Mount Gravatt was the end of the line, part of the area was known locally as "The Terminus". Mount Gravatt East State School (in neighbouring Mount Gravatt East) was opened on 29 August 1955.Mount Gravatt State High School opened in 1960.St Agnes Catholic Primary School opened on 1 January 1962.The Mount Gravatt Library opened in 1967.St Catherine's School (in neighbouring Wishart) opened on 4 March 1971.Mount Gravatt Special School opened on 17 May 1971. On 21 September 2012, it was relocated Mackenzie State Primary School (which was formerly Mount Petrie State School in Mackenzie) where it was renamed Mackenzie Special School.Griffith University (in neighbouring Nathan) opened its main campus in 1975.Yarranlea State School opened in Yarranlea (in the Toowoomba Region) on 22 January 1883 and closed on 9 December 1977.