Donald Mackenzie named his station at the headwaters
of the Mary River after his place of birth, the River Conon in Scotland.
The river was known to the Kabi people as Numabulla. Andrew Petrie named
it the Wide Bay River, but it came to be officially named the Mary River
in honour of Lady Mary Fitzroy, the governor's wife. When the Gympie gold
rush began, the track north from Brisbane passed the Durandur and then climbed
the range to the Conondale Station. It was not long before a road was marked
closer to the coast, but until that happened Conondale was well known to
travellers on the Gympie track. Many bullock drays overturned and were destroyed
in their attempts to negotiate the range.
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