TASTE MILES
Taste Miles
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DULACCA
CHINCHILLA JANDOWAE
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collections of military, lapidary, shells, and bottles.
A visit to Miles must include the Miles Historical Village Museum, where over 30 restored and original buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries make up the streetscape. Operating since 1971, the museum is home to
Miles also boast Chinaman’s Lagoon, situated on the edge of town and home to rare pink waterlilies which bloom during the summer and autumn months, this popular Miles picnic spot makes for a pictureperfect picnic setting for a morning tea or lunch break. The lagoon’s namesake – a Chinese market gardener who arrived in Chinchilla in 1880.
itting at the junction of the Warrego and Leichhardt highways, Miles is a vibrant rural township known for its well-preserved pioneering history and good oldfashioned country hospitality.
MILES
CONDAMINE
BUNYA MOUNTAINS BELL
TARA
DALBY
BRISBANE → 335km 3hr 55mins
HISTORY:
The town is named in honour of William Miles, the owner of Dulacca Station from 1860-75, a local Member of Parliament and the Minister for Railways when the Miles Railway Station was built at Dogwood Creek. The town was originally named Dogwood Crossing by Ludwig Leichhardt who was impressed by the large number of dogwood trees in the area.
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