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There are plenty of dining options around Tingalpa. If you're looking
for a local café, take-away, pub or restaurant you'll find
it here.
There are small local shops along Belmont Road but if you're after supermarkets,
variety and specialty stores in one place, head over to Wynnum Road at Cannon
Hill.
Tingalpa's name comes from the Aboriginal words 'tingal' (fat) and 'pa' (place).
Bulimba Creek was a popular camping ground for the local Aborigines who also
camped on the flats near town.
In 1846 there were reports of Aborigines raiding produce along Bulimba Creek.
Near Tingalpa, Bertha Pears met a group of men decorating themselves for a fight.
A large group lived on the flats and some members worked on the Stanton farm
for food or tobacco. Corroborees held there would often last all night. Mrs J
Porter recalled that when the noise became annoying, white settlers would fire
their guns into the air and it would cease. In 1872 a major corroboree of 300
Moreton Bay and Brisbane Aborigines was held at Tingalpa.
A small but scattered farming community grew in the Tingalpa area throughout
the 1860s. Sugar was grown and milled throughout out the 1860s and 1870s. In
1871 James Johnston built a sugar mill on the site of Kelly's brickyard, and
later moved it to Bulimba. As sugar production moved north, Tingalpa farmers
turned to small crops, dairying, and some grape growing and winemaking. Tingalpa
was on the main road.
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