[Geraldton 1892]

Rare c.19th printout paper photographs of Geraldton, now present day Innisfail, Queensland in 1892 on the one sheet by an unknown photographer. 

In 1879, Irishman Thomas Henry Fitzgerald arrived in the area to establish a sugar industry at his Innisfail Estate . He was accompanied by large numbers of Kanaka South Sea Islanders workers accompanied by smaller numbers of Irish labourers. The house built by Fitzgerald and thus the first establishment in the area was called Innisfallen. The town was renamed Geraldton two months later and Innisfail in 1910.

Titles from top left clockwise:
Rankin St
Esplanade Looking Down-river
Divisional Board Hall Looking from Edith St
Kerr’s Selection Aligator Creek