Talk:Ventnor State School

Wongalee - where is it?

Does anyone know where Wongalee is? It is no longer a gazetted place name. Kerry (talk) 12:17, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Interesting question. It's clearly not the gazetted parish or homestead, but Google Maps lists a Wongalee in what is now Moonford, Queensland, which is quite close by, and contains a Wongalee Road. The Drover's Wife (talk) 12:31, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

That looks promising! But I can rule out the possibiity of Moonford have been formerly called Wongalee (because they had state schools at overlapping time frames). But if Wongalee was at one end of Wongalee Road, that's far enough from Moonford that they might have had a separate school there. Investigating ... Kerry (talk) 12:45, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Searching the old electoral rolls shows some people registered as living at "Cannia Road, Wongalee" and at "Clonmel Road, Wongalee". These two roads are the end points of the Wongalee Road you found. So I am inclined to think Wongalee must have been the area around Wongalee Road. Kerry (talk) 12:51, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

I found this 1942 army map which shows the Wongalee Telegraph, which seems to put Wongalee as being around the intersection of Wongalee Road and Cannia Road. So I took a look in Google Maps with my various Queensland Globe contours and it becomes obvious very quickly that much of the land along Wongalee Road is quite hilly and the flatter farm-able bit is indeed around the intersection of Wongalee Road and Cannia Road, so that's where people would be living and hence where the school might well be. While not proven, I think there's a high level of confidence on this location. Kerry (talk) 13:06, 22 August 2016 (UTC)