Heritage Village

Today we decided to check out Heritage Village which is located just north of the city on the A1. Not sure what it really was we went to see what it was all about. Upon arriving we were escorted into a 1926 Rugby for a private tour around the complex. Our guide informed us that the complex had been there for 11 years. Its purpose is to show what the region used to look like when it was first settled. It consisted of a number of original structures that had been relocated and several others that had been built in likeness of original structures. After our tour we were dropped off and left to ourselves to wander around the Village. We toured old homesteads, a school, church and numerous other similar structures. They also displayed numerous cars and machines that were used…some until recently like the 32V generator engine that was used to power a local dairy farm until 1986 when it was replaced with a 240V engine! One interesting fact: Rockhampton didn’t have a complete sewage system until 1978!