Bauhinia - QLD

For thousands of years, indigenous people lived in this area, leaving behind stencil art and other sacred sites. The explorer Ludwig Leichhardt and his party passed through the area in November 1844. Leichhardt was a keen botanist and collected vegetation samples, among them were several species of the bauhinia tree from which our community draws its name. Leichhardt’s glowing reports of the areas’ open grassland or ‘downs country’ led to settlement by sheep pastoralists in the 1850/60s. However, it wasn’t until the clearance of the brigalow for agriculture in the 1960s that our little town was gazetted and established in 1967. Today Bauhinia prospers from the rich fertile soils which support intensive grain growing and produces quality cattle grazing pastures. With reliable water from artesian sources and surface streams, our area offers some of the most dependable grazing country in Queensland.