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Round the Ridge Website Objectives:
1. Provide Acacia Ridge with up-to-date event information
2. Provide home page opportunities for Acacia Ridge organisations who do not have one
3. Develop and maintain an online community directory for Acacia Ridge with printable version
4. Display the original work developed for the website as part of the Queensland Stories project
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| Our web team |  |
This web site is updated by the community. We have information on events, local facilities, a community director of organisations and businesses, stories, slideshows and more...
The web team volunteers include: Sonia Cardell, Judi Donnelly, Anne williams, Allira Power, Mark Crocker and Robyn Wooster
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| About Acacia Ridge (from Brisbites) | |
Acacia Ridge evolved from Coopers Plains where the first provisional school opened in 1869. One of the earliest commercial buildings in Acacia Ridge was the Rose and Crown Hotel which operated during the 1870s and was a stopping place for Cobb and Co Coaches on their way from Brisbane to Beaudesert. Mail coaches of the 1860s travelled on to Casino in New South Wales.
The first urban subdivisions took place in the 1880s. The first official mention of the place name Acacia Ridge was referred to in the mail contract let to Giovanni Stombucco of Kuraby in 1901. A trained architect and son of well-known architect Andrea Strombucco, he had been advised by doctors to take up residence in the country because of his severe asthma. He and his mother moved to Kuraby where they ran the mail service until 1926.
The decision, in 1964, of GMH (General Motors Holden) to base a vehicle-assembly plant in the area led to further industrial development and increased urbanisation to house the workers.
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