page_title: Maleny, Queensland
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Maleny, Queensland / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Main centre of Maleny, ca. 1922. View shows shops and buildings in the centre of Maleny. Shops include Myers &amp; Hirst Ltd., general merchants, trading as Maleny Emporium and J. A. Crigor cash butcher.
context_page_description: Maleny is a town and a locality in the Sunshine Coast Region in Queensland, Australia.
context_section_description: The name Maleny is probably derived from the parish name, which in turn is possibly derived from the Scottish place name Malleny, a village in Midlothian, Scotland.
  The area around Maleny was originally populated by the Nalbo and the Dallambara—two aboriginal tribes of the Gubbi Gubbi language group. The area was known for its bunya feasts which happened every third year when the giant bunya tree was in fruit.
  The first European to document Maleny was the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt who describes the area in his travel diary in 1844. The first European settlement followed in the wake of the Gympie gold rush of 1867. A track linking Maleny to Landsborough was cut in 1880.
  An official proclamation of Maleny as a town occurred in 1891.
  The Maleny Butter Factory began operation in 1904.
  Maleny Post Office opened by February 1906 (a receiving office had been open from 1889).
  Maleny Township State School opened on 22 April 1913. In 1915 its name was changed to Maleny State School.
  Maleny was a timber town until the early 1920s and then was a centre of dairy production and fruit growing.
  St George's Anglican Church was dedicated on 6 September 1931 by Archbishop Sharp. It had been relocated from the Beerburrum Soldier Settlement where it was dedicated (also as St George's) on 20 August 1922 by Canon D.J. Garland, but it fell into disuse due to the failure of the settlement and was formally closed in August 1931 prior to its removal to Maleny. The building was originally built as a chapel at the Enoggera army barracks during World War I by the Soldiers' Church of England Help Society. Many of the furnishings and ornaments of the church were donated in memory of soldiers who had died, including the altar and its furnishings which were donated in the member of Earl Kitchener.
  Although a campaign to have a police station in the town was started in the 1920s, it wasn't until 1952 that permission to convert a house into the police station and residence (in use until 2017) was granted.
  Maleny State High School opened 27 January 1987.
  On 15 August 1995, the Queensland Governor Leneen Forde dedicated the Maleny War Memorial.
  Since just after the turn of the 20th century, the Maleny Community Centre has provided facilities to residents and visitors for a wide range of activities. Located in the middle of town, the original centre was established as the result of a gift by one of its residents.
  At the 2011 census Maleny recorded a population of 3,441 people.
  The Maleny Library was opened in 1998 with a major refurbishment in 2012.
caption: Maleny circa 1922
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