Moving House Researcher for the Arts Queensland funded Museum
of Central Queensland history project 2013. Moving House traces the relocation of more than 250 houses from the once lucrative gold mining town of Mt Morgan, Queensland, Australia in the 1910s, ’20s and ’30s. While some houses moved two and three times, others later returned to the town of their origins.
One contribution states: “According to the land title, the house was relocated from Mt Morgan in 1925. Portions were brought down separately, each on a bullock dray, and then reassembled. We were going to bull-doze the old shack and build a new house further up the slope for the view, but we fell in love with the old place and decided instead to renovate. The house has a real connection to the local area. When we were renovating we discovered a beam that ran through the centre of the original house and it had MMM (Mt Morgan Mine) 1886 carved into it.”
