It might have seemed a canny investment at the time, but what was prime waterfront land in the town of Yaamba 160 years ago now lies at the bottom of the Fitzroy River.Livingstone Shire Council has written off unpaid rates for the riverbed blocks after failing to find any descendantsSections of their street were subsumed over the past 160 years as the river changed course
At a meeting last month, council wrote off $77,500 in unpaid rates for the riverbed blocks after failing to find any descendants, or "beneficiaries", of Mr Henriques and other investors – despite considerable investigation. "Mother Nature has no mercy," Cr Mather said as she looked out over the submerged land during a visit to the town.
"It was a major centre because it was the main crossing over the Fitzroy River on the road north and there was no bridge over the river in Rockhampton until 1881," he said.Yaamba's strategic importance grew in the 1920s with the construction of a pumping station that supplied fresh water to Rockhampton.The town's population has since dwindled to about 50, and the impressive pump building stands abandoned as a relic of the town's place in the region's history.
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