The East district was, until 1949, part of Tingalpa shire. The Loganholme area was first settled by German settlers and the German cemetery still survives today as testament to the settlers' early struggles. Loganholme school started in 1873 with 37 pupils. The post office was opened on October 25th, 1876 at a site later occupied by a golden fleece service station on the now south-bound lane of the pacific highway. prior to 1863 Loganholme was virtually unsettled. The nearest settlements were a village reserve at eight mile plains, the Irish settlement at Logan reserve and Waterford on the north bank of the Logan river. In 1863 Loganholme, with the exception of 700 acres allocated tot he Lancashire cotton co and 1,280 acres held by thos. Oldham, was included in an extension of the Logan Agricultural Reserve. The two mentioned properties stretched from the mouth of slacks creek tot he Redland bay turn-off taking the whole bend of the river.

Shalier park was named after Mayor of Logan City, Glen Shalier. his great grandfather Francis Shalier came to slacks creek in 1866, after and eighteen week voyage in the sailing ship, the sultana. He secured a grant of land and became a pioneer in the fruit-growing industry planting the first citrus orchard on southern Queensland. He also grew cotton, maize and sugar-cane. The area from Springwood Road to Bryant’s Road was known as Slacks Creek. The area south of Bryant’s road was owned by Mr William Castles who had named his home "Loganholme".

Kimberley park estate, planned and developed by development underwriting ltd. was opened in 1973. The Loganholme hyperdome was opened 1st of august 1989 on the site where a tourist lion park stood in the 1970's. Carbrook was, until 1916, known as Gamow. it was named after a town in Germany and settled by immigrants from the country, who began to arriving in the Logan district in the 1860's.

The original Carbrook state school, which was established in 1877, is one of the city's favourite historical sites, even today. until 1969 springwood was part of slacks creek. springwood was a 640 acre property owned by brigadier Sam Langford who came to Queensland in 1932 and bought land known as "wire paddock". after WWII Brigadier sold the property in lots of 60 or 80 acre. The old springwood property is today part of Rochedale south. The name Rochdale derives from Mr T Roche, who took over 500 acres in the area in the 1870's. larger estates were subdivided in the 1920's for around the equivalent of $1-$2 an acre. Underwood was named after William Underwood, and early settler and publican in the eight mile plains district.

The landscape of the central District id dominated by a spur of the McPherson range- a "wooded ridge" along which the railway track was built-and the pacific highway. After 1865, when the first bridge across the Brisbane river was opened, the track leading from Brisbane through Mt Gravatt, eight Milne plains, slacks creek and Beenleigh to the south opened up the area which is now Logan city for settlement. slacks creek was a trading and provisioning centre for settlers in Logan valley to the south.

As late as the 1950's the area was essentially rural in character. in 1958 the township of Woodridge had a post office, 2 grocers and a butcher. Kingston, formerly known as scrubby creek was named after Charles Kingston who applied in 1872 for land selection. White settlers named slacks creek, the area and the creek, after Mr W slack who ran cattle there. Aboriginal people called the district mungaree-place of fishes. In the 1960's Kingston and Woodridge lands were subdivided and sold with out kerbs, gutters, drains or sewerage reticulation.

 

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