Rollingstone

Rollingstone is a town and coastal locality in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Rollingstone is a town and coastal locality in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. As of the 2016 census, the population of Rollingstone was 125.

Settled in 1883 by John Lambert, the district was originally a pastoral lease known as Armidale, extending from Bluewater Creek in the south to Clerk Creek (later known as Ollera Creek) in the north.In 1906, the Armidale Hotel opened along the stagecoach route between Townsville and Ingham.When the North Coast railway opened through Rollingstone in 1915, the railway station was to serve as a post office. However concern over possible confusion with Armidale in New South Wales resulted in the town and railway station being renamed Rollingstone after the creek, which is believed to be named for the round shape of the rocks found in the creek bed. The hotel was renamed the Rollingstone Hotel.Rollingstone State School opened on 4 September 1916 with 28 students on land donated by the hotel owners, John and Isabella Fitzpatrick.The opening of the railway opened up the beaches north of Townsville for recreational use. The beach near Rollingstone just south of the mouth of Rollingstone Creek was surveyed for a town in 1947 and named Balgal with town land allotments being sold in 1948 onwards (this area is now a separate suburb called Balgal Beach).