page_title: Wacol, Queensland
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Wacol, Queensland / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Creator: G. G. McLennan, lic. surveyor. Location: Wacol, Brisbane, Queensland. Description: &quot;For sale by S. Mordant House Land Estate and General Mortgage Agent ... Being resubs 1 to 22 of subdivision 1 of Por 158 Parish of Oxley&quot; Published by Gordon and Gotch lithographer (Brisbane). 90 x 57 cm. Map includes conditions of purchase and locality map. Read more about SLQ's map collections: http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/?s=maps View this image at the State Library of Queensland: http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/18594 Information about State Library of Queensland’s collection: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/picture-queensland You are free to use this image without permission. Please attribute State Library of Queensland.
context_page_description: Wacol is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, a total of 3,761 people lived within the boundaries of Wacol.
context_section_description: The suburb takes its name from its railway station.
  Wolston House was opened in 1852.  Still intact today the building is the only surviving early Brisbane River settlement.  The building was planned to be demolished however the National Trust of Queensland intervened to save the building.  Major conservation work was undertaken.
  The Wolston railway station was opened on 8 October 1874, taking its name from Wolston House. However, the name caused confusion with the Wilston railway station, so it was renamed on 8 July 1927 to Wacol railway station. Wacol is a coined word from weigh coal, as the principal purpose of the station was coal handling.
  A portion of Wacol comes from the Wolston Estate, consisting of 54 farms on an area of 3000 acres, offered for auction at Centennial Hall, Brisbane, on 16 October 1901. Wolston Estate is the property of M. B. Goggs, whose father obtained the land forty years previously in the 1860s and after whom Goggs Road is named. Only three of the farms sold at the original auction.
  In 1879, the local government area of Yeerongpilly Division was created. In 1891, parts of Yeerongpilly Division were excised to create Sherwood Division becoming a Shire in 1903 which contained the area of Wolston Estate. In 1925, the Shire of Sherwood was amalgamated into the City of Brisbane.
  The suburb played host to the American military during World War II, who constructed Camp Columbia in 1942; after the war, control of the facility was transferred to the Australian government for use as a migrant reception and training centre.
  In the 2011 census Wacol had a population of 2,957 people.
caption: Real estate map of Wolston Station Estate, circa 1900
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