Cremorne

Cremorne is a locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia.

Cremorne is a locality in the Mackay Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Cremorne had a population of 33 people.

Arriving in 1863, John Greenwood Barnes was the first settler on the northern band of the Pioneer River. He experimented with growing edible tropical plants such as breadfruit, mango, guava, pineapples etc. on behalf of botanist Ferdinand von Mueller, the curator of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens. However his greatest success was with coconut palms which he first planted in 1868 and then expanded to a plantation of 1200 trees.In 1884, Barnes erected a two-storey hotel with a promenade roof. Working with his father-in-law William Seaward, he developed pleasure gardens called Cremorne Gardens thought to be modelled on the Cremorne Gardens in Melbourne (Barnes had lived in Victoria before moving to Queensland). In January 1898 the hotel was damaged by Cyclone Eline and then demolished by the January 1918 cyclone.