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When
Moravian missionaries arrived in Moreton Bay in 1839 to take up a
263 hectare reserve spanning a creek to Brisbane’s north, they
turned to the Bible for a name. They settled on Kedron Brook - the
name of the stream David crossed when fleeing from Absalom.
Mammon, however, was also alive and well in Kedron in the form of an
illegal horse-racing track which had a succession of owners in the
early part of last century. The last private course syndicate
included notorious Melbourne SP and sports promoter John Wren. Wren
and his associates paid $36,000 for the track in 1912 and reaped a
handsome profit when they sold it to the Kedron Amateur Racing Club
for $500,000 in 1925.
The
racecourse finally disappeared from the scene in 1956 to make way,
ironically, for an education complex. The boundary between Kedron
and its northern suburban neighbour, Nundah, is dominated by an
expansive green belt which offers hectares of open and recreational
space on both sides of Kedron Brook.
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car rental Kedron, choose Bargain Wheels.
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