Dalby Heritage Walking Trail

Dalby Tours and Attractions

Take a pleasant walk around some of Dalby's historic buildings, homes and churches. Below are listed places of interest along the walk. At the end of the trail wander back to your car along the picturesque Myall Creek Walk – reading the historic plaques along the way. The Dalby Central State School, St Columba's Library and Convent (now known as Iona) are also worth a look.

1. The walk commences at St Joseph's Catholic Church which was erected in 1921 when the late Monseigneur TJ Nolan saw the need of the increasing congregation. Built in romanesque style, the church features columns topped by arches in the dome, doors and windows. The barrel ceiling of pressed metal is featured in many of the great basilicas in Rome. The beautiful Rose window on the back wall is a memorial to the fallen of World War I. Its 12 panels depict different aspects of the Passion of Our Lord.

2. St John's Anglican Church, established in 1866, the first church in Dalby.

3. Country Club Hotel. The site of the Dalby Arms Hotel in 1858. In July 1859, a meeting at the hotel organised the first race meeting for Dalby.

4. The old Police Station. This building was built in the mid 1860's to house a police office, lock up cells and living quarters for the lock-up keeper of the day.

5. The old Town Council Chambers. This building was opened on 13th February 1932 as the new Council Chambers by the Premier Hon AE Moore.

6. CBC Bank Building. Now a real estate, this building was originally the old CBC Bank, the first bank in Dalby. Featuring stained glass in the windows and pressed steel walls and ceiling, the building retains the original bank safe and a “snow porch” over the front door.

7. Commercial Hotel still carries the same name and continues to occupy the same site as the original Commercial conducted by Daniel Condon. Step back in time and enjoy a cool drink.

8. Art Centre. A primitive hut on the bank of the Myall Creek below where the Art Centre stands, served as Dalby's first Bath House. This building was constantly being flooded, so in 1931 the Town Council built a brick building (now the Art Centre) higher up the bank.

9. Cactoblastis Cairn. In 1925 some 50 million acres of land in Queensland and New South Wales were infected with prickly pear, the greatest example known to man of any noxious plant invasion. The Dalby District was then heavily infested. The eggs of the Cactoblastis Cactorum were imported from the Argentine early in 1925 and were bred in very large numbers and liberated throughout the prickly pear territory. Within 10 years the insect had destroyed all the dense mass of prickly pear. The plaque was erected in 1965 to record the indebtedness of the people of Queensland and Dalby in particular, to the Cactoblastis Cactorum.

10. Anzac Park War Memorial

11. Imperial Hotel. Built by Edward Ryan around 1880 using cedar from the Bunya Mountains which he carted himself.

12. There are many lovely old buildings in the CBD and this shop takes you a step back in time.