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Coorparoo is a southern suburb
Suburb

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 of Brisbane
Brisbane

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, Queensland
Queensland

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, Australia
Australia

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, located approximately four kilometres from the city. Surrounding suburbs include Camp Hill
Camp Hill, Queensland

Camp Hill is a largely residential suburb in the south-east of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located approximately 7 km from the Brisbane central business district and, as its name suggests, is elevated and commands fine views of the CBD....
, Holland Park
Holland Park, Queensland

Holland Park is a suburb of Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia, that is situated approximately 8 km south of the Brisbane central business district....
, Greenslopes
Greenslopes, Queensland

Greenslopes is a moderately sized suburb of the city of Brisbane, state capital of Queensland, Australia."Greenslopes" is also the name of a Queensland Electoral district of Greenslopes....
, East Brisbane
East Brisbane, Queensland

East Brisbane is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 3km east of the Brisbane CBD. It is predominantly residential, with some original Queenslander style homes, but with an increasing number of apartment blocks....
, Norman Park
Norman Park, Queensland

Norman Park is a suburb in Brisbane, Australia. It is located 4km east of the Brisbane central business district.Norman Park has numerous parks and recreational areas for residents in the area....
 and Seven Hills
Seven Hills, Queensland

Seven Hills is a suburb located on the inner eastern side of Brisbane, surrounded by the suburbs of Norman Park, Queensland, Morningside, Queensland and Carina, Queensland....
.

e has been some discussion over the origin of the name. It is a widely held belief that "Coorparoo" is the sound a pidgeon makes, others believe it comes from the Aboriginal
Indigenous Australians

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 name for a creek
Stream

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 that passes through the suburb and into Norman Creek
Norman Creek

Norman Creek is a small tributary of the Brisbane River. The headwaters of the creek are located on the northern slopes of Toohey Mountain and Mount Gravatt in southern Brisbane....
 near the (now) Coorparoo railway station
Coorparoo railway station, Brisbane

Coorparoo Station is a railway station on the Cleveland railway line, Brisbane of Brisbane, Australia. It is part of the Queensland Rail Citytrain network....
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Coorparoo is a southern suburb
Suburb

Suburbs are commonly defined as the residential areas which surround the central area of the urban area of a town or city. In the United States, suburbs have a prevalence of usually detached single-family homes.....
 of Brisbane
Brisbane

Brisbane is the state List of Australian capital cities of Queensland and its most populous city. It is also the List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, behind southern rivals Sydney and Melbourne....
, Queensland
Queensland

Queensland is a States and territories of Australia of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
, located approximately four kilometres from the city. Surrounding suburbs include Camp Hill
Camp Hill, Queensland

Camp Hill is a largely residential suburb in the south-east of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is located approximately 7 km from the Brisbane central business district and, as its name suggests, is elevated and commands fine views of the CBD....
, Holland Park
Holland Park, Queensland

Holland Park is a suburb of Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia, that is situated approximately 8 km south of the Brisbane central business district....
, Greenslopes
Greenslopes, Queensland

Greenslopes is a moderately sized suburb of the city of Brisbane, state capital of Queensland, Australia."Greenslopes" is also the name of a Queensland Electoral district of Greenslopes....
, East Brisbane
East Brisbane, Queensland

East Brisbane is an inner suburb of Brisbane, Australia located 3km east of the Brisbane CBD. It is predominantly residential, with some original Queenslander style homes, but with an increasing number of apartment blocks....
, Norman Park
Norman Park, Queensland

Norman Park is a suburb in Brisbane, Australia. It is located 4km east of the Brisbane central business district.Norman Park has numerous parks and recreational areas for residents in the area....
 and Seven Hills
Seven Hills, Queensland

Seven Hills is a suburb located on the inner eastern side of Brisbane, surrounded by the suburbs of Norman Park, Queensland, Morningside, Queensland and Carina, Queensland....
.

History

There has been some discussion over the origin of the name. It is a widely held belief that "Coorparoo" is the sound a pidgeon makes, others believe it comes from the Aboriginal
Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands and their descendants. Indigenous Australians are distinguished as either Australian Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders, who currently together make up about 2.6% of Australia's population....
 name for a creek
Stream

A stream is a body of water less than 60 feet wide with a current , confined within a stream bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as brook, beck, Burn , creek, crick, kill, lick , rill, river syke, bayou, rivu...
 that passes through the suburb and into Norman Creek
Norman Creek

Norman Creek is a small tributary of the Brisbane River. The headwaters of the creek are located on the northern slopes of Toohey Mountain and Mount Gravatt in southern Brisbane....
 near the (now) Coorparoo railway station
Coorparoo railway station, Brisbane

Coorparoo Station is a railway station on the Cleveland railway line, Brisbane of Brisbane, Australia. It is part of the Queensland Rail Citytrain network....
. For thousands of years Aborigines lived on the fertile land on the banks of the Brisbane River
Brisbane River

The Brisbane River is the longest river in South East Queensland Queensland, Australia, and flows through the city of Brisbane, before emptying into Moreton Bay....
, hunting and fishing.

Those who lived on the southside of the river, particularly the Yugarabul or Jagara tribes, found plenty of food in this area. Just before European settlement, John Oxley
John Oxley

This article is about the person. For the Australian pilot ship, see John Oxley .John Joseph William Molesworth Oxley was an List of explorers and surveyor of Australia in the early period of English colonisation....
 in 1823 marked (but did not name) a creek. The name "Norman's Creek" first appeared on a map prepared by Major Lockyer in 1825.

Historian Leslie E. Slaughter, in a paper presented to the Historical Society of Queensland on 28 November 1953, wrote that "the name Norman's Creek is a corruption of the original name of Gorman's Creek, named after Lieutenant Owen Gorman of Her Majesty's 8th Foot Regiment and who was the last commandant of Moreton Bay. Baker's Atlas of 1846 mapped it as Gorman's Creek. Norman Park
Norman Park, Queensland

Norman Park is a suburb in Brisbane, Australia. It is located 4km east of the Brisbane central business district.Norman Park has numerous parks and recreational areas for residents in the area....
 was named after Sir Henry Norman
Henry Norman

Sir Henry Norman, 1st Baronet Privy Council of the United Kingdom was an English people journalist and Liberal Party politician....
, the seventh Governor of Queensland, May 1, 1895".

The Aboriginals called this small creek/tributary of Norman Creek "Cooraparoo". The meaning remains unclear, with possibilities including 'place of the biting mosquito', 'call of the dingo' . The first survey in (what is now) Stones Corner/Coorparoo area was of 'Norman' Creek--in 1839--just when the Moreton Bay
Moreton Bay

Moreton Bay is a large bay on the eastern coast of Australia 19 km from Brisbane, Queensland. The waters of Moreton Bay are a popular destination for recreational anglers and are used by commercial operators who provide seafood to market....
 penal settlement was coming to an end. Surveying of a practical route from Brisbane to Cleveland
Cleveland, Queensland

Cleveland is one of the 21 bayside suburbs of the Redland City Council, approximately 25 kilometres East-South-East of Brisbane. It is home to the Redland City Council chambers, and comprises commercial, residential and industrial areas....
 commenced in 1850 and the former bullock
Bullock

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 track became a road, later named Old Cleveland Road.

This important arterial road has carried bullock drays, electric tram
Tram

A tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car, or streetcar is a railroad car, of lighter weight and construction than a train, designed for the transport of passengers within, close to, or between villages, towns and/or cities, on tracks running primarily on streets....
s (from 1915 to 1969), buses and an ever increasing volume of cars as the bayside district became more densely populated.

Another important arterial road is Cavendish Road. Marked as a Government Road on the original survey, it later became Pine Mountain Road then Cavendish Road. Until 1955 a tram line ran along Cavendish Road from Old Cleveland Road. In that year, the trams were replaced by a trolleybus
Trolleybus

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 service which operated until March 1969.

In October 1856 the first auction sales of land in Coorparoo took place with 10 country allotments between Norman's Creek and Old Cleveland Road being offered. In December 1857 the second Coorparoo land sale took place with a further 9 portion on the southern side of Old Cleveland Road being offered. Further sales subsequently took place and by 1875 the population of the district had grown significantly enough to demand the provision of the district's own school.

Samuel Stevens in 1875 donated two acres (8,000 mē) of his property near the junction of Pine Mountain Road (now Cavendish Road) and Old Cleveland Road for use of a school. He declined the offer of naming the area "Stevenstown". At a meeting on 22 March 1875 of the residents at Frederick Wecker's home it was resolved "that the name of the locality and the school should be Cooraparoo" after the Aboriginal name for the area around the creek but the Board of Education chose the spelling 'Coorparoo' and the district finally had a name.

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