Water Tower Art- Augathella Augathella, Queensland, Australia
By tronador on 05-Oct-22. Waypoint GA27031

This bright and colourful water tower represents the town of Augathella which has a colourful & unique history full of Bullock Teams and notorious bushrangers who camped along the Warrego River.

Augathella lies on the Matilda Highway and is 85 kilometers north of the town of Charleville. The township itself was settled as a junction of three tracks, from Charleville in the south, Burenda Station, and from Tampo in the West. It was at this junction bullock teams camped on the Warrego River long before settlement. In 1880 the town/junction was surveyed and called Ellangowa and in 1883 the township was officially gazetted as Augathella. Working Bullock teams provided the muscle needed in our pioneering days. While Australia rode 'on a sheep's back', the wool that brought the region's prosperity rode the dusty miles from outback stations to the port on lumbering bullock wagons.

Depicted on the tower, which was painted by Blender Studios in February 2020 is a bullock team, a boundary rider, windmill and old man emu.

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