page_title: Pentland, Queensland
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Pentland, Queensland / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Hughenden mail train arrives at Pentland Railway Station, 1929.
context_page_description: Pentland is a town and locality in the Charters Towers Region in north-western Queensland, Australia.
context_section_description: The Cape River goldfields opened in July 1867 on the advice of geologist Richard Daintree. By 1870 there were over 20,000 men working the goldfield but by 1873, the population of Capeville had reduced to about 30.
  Bett's Creek Post Office opened on 7 October 1884. It was renamed Pentland in 1885.
  The 2013 Australian Federal Government budget included funds for a feasibility study on "the potential to develop land for sugarcane production, milling, ethanol and cogeneration infrastructure in the Pentland region."
caption: Train at Pentland railway station in 1929
exif: {}