Keeping knowledge of local history alive. I revived the group in May 2023. See the Coopers Plains History Group website for more information.

Coopers Plains is the first crossroad of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement. The roads were convict built tracks that often followed ancient Aboriginal paths. In about 1826 a government hut was constructed in Cowper’s Plains, as it was then spelt. We believe it is somewhere slightly south west of the current-day intersection of Beaudesert and Granard Roads, Archerfield.

Here is a short description of Coopers Plains neighbourhood and how it came to be. The residential hub of Coopers Plains is on Orange Grove Road between Musgrave Road to the north and Boundary Road to the south. But it has a problem…