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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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