Pittsworth, Queensland: Travel guide and things to do

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Pittsworth, Queensland: Travel guide and things to do

Located 169 km south-west of Brisbane via the Warrego Highway, 41 km south-west of Toowoomba and 518 m above sea-level, Pittsworth presents itself to the world as a town with lots of interesting buildings and places of historical importance. Unfortunately this presentation is not matched by the quiet reality of an attractive town of tree-lined streets where there are only a few interesting buildings.

The town was originally known as Beauaraba but the name was changed in 1915 in honour of a prominent local family who took up land at Goombungee in 1854.

Pittsworth grew up around a hotel which attracted itinerant rural workers and local landholders. The town's centenary was celebrated in 1976. The European settlement of the area was greatly aided by the arrival of the railway in 1887 and the transition from large to smaller holdings and from sheep to dairy farming. The Co-operative Dairy Company opened in 1896. By 1914 Pittsworth had a number of dairy factories which were producing about 80 per cent of all the cheese being manufactured on the Darling Downs. This cheese making reached some kind of dubious nadir in 1915 when the town made a single block of cheddar cheese weighing 1.5 tonnes. It was duly shipped off to the World Dairy Show in London.

Today Pittsworth is an attractive, small service centre for the surrounding farms which grow cereal crops, cotton, linseed and sunflowers as well as fattening beef cattle.

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