Gatton

Gatton is a town and the authoritative focal point of the Lockyer Valley nearby government region arranged in the Lockyer Valley of South East Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 registration, Gatton had a populace of 6,869. Over ongoing years, the country quietness of the Gatton region has begun to be infringed on by the rural sprawl of metropolitan Brisbane and Ipswich in the east and Toowoomba in the west.

The Warrego Highway, which runs east– west through the Shire, has likewise experienced expanding strip improvement, with fuel outlets and business properties continuously spreading along the roadway. The Gatton territory was investigated by Major Edmund Lockyer in 1825. A settlement known as Gatton was gazetted in 1855. The mail station opened 1 January 1866, with Frederick Lloyd, a dairyman, as the principal postmaster.

The little town did not encounter noteworthy development until the point that the mid-1870s, after the railroad to Grandchester pulled in individuals to the area. In December 1898 three neighborhood adolescents from adjacent Blackfellow's Creek were killed. The wrongdoing, known as the Gatton murders, has never been solved. The Star is a free, neighborhood, network daily paper which started distributing in 1956. You can come and explore this place.