Ingham, Herbert District, Queensland, Australia

Notes:
The town is positioned about 17 km inland within the Herbert River floodplain where Palm Creek drains the low-lying lands. It is surrounded by sugar cane farms which are serviced by a number of private railways.



The North Coast railway line passes through the town, which is served by the Ingham railway station. The Bruce Highway also passes through the town.upstream from the mouth of the Herbert River. Founded in 1864, it was gazetted a shire in 1879. On a rail line and the Bruce Highway from Brisbane (745 miles [1,199 km] southeast), the town serves important sugarcane plantations, pioneered in the 1870s by William Ingham, for whom the town is named. The area also yields tobacco, beef, and timber. Pop. (2006) 4,726; (2011) urban centre, 4,705.



Ingham is the service centre for many sugarcane plantations, which are serviced by the two sugar mills located in the Ingham district: Victoria Sugar Mill (located approximately 6 km from Ingham), which is the largest sugar mill in Australia and one of the largest in the southern hemisphere,[16] and Macknade Mill, which is the oldest operating sugar mill in Queensland. Both mills are owned and operated by Wilmar Sugar Australia Limited. The majority of the cane is transported to the mills by light tramlines.[17] Once processed by the mills, the raw sugar is then transported by tramline to the bulk sugar terminal at the nearby seaside port of Lucinda and loaded onto ships for export via the longest pier in the southern hemisphere (4.75 km long).



Other industries in the Ingham area include cattle, watermelons, rice, horticulture, fishing, timber and tourism.



Prior to European settlement, the Ingham area was inhabited by the Warakamai People.



The town was founded in 1864. It was gazetted as the local government area Hinchinbrook Division in 1879, becoming the Shire of Hinchinbrook in 1903. The town is named after William Bairstow Ingham, a pioneer sugar planter on the Herbert River in 1874.



Lower Herbert Post Office opened on 1 January 1871 and was renamed Ingham in 1882. A gaol opened in July 1886; previously there had only been a police lock-up.[7]



The town has a strong Italian and Spanish history with the 1920s and 1930s seeing a large influx of immigrants from these countries

Latitude: -18.65, Longitude: 146.166667

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