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Boggabilla xxx on the southern bank of the MacIntyre River, near the New South Wales town of Boggabilla was originally an Aboriginal reserve dating from 1891 before becoming a station with a teacher-manager in 1912. The station was moved to a new reserve known as Toomelah in 1925. In 1939 the people from Toomelah and from other camps in the district, including Texas in Queensland, were resettled in new houses on the Boggabilla reserve, located north of the highway running east from Boggabilla.

Location
Boggabilla Aboriginal Station, New Toomelah, Toomelah Aboriginal Mission, Toomelah Station was located 9 miles east of Boggabilla, NSW at the junction of MacIntyre and Dumaresq rivers.

The Boggabilla Aboriginal Reserve (AR 14,120) was gazetted by the New South Wales government on 8 August 1891 and revoked on 24 May 1918, it was 457 acres in the parish of Boggabilla and the county of Staplyton.

Geolocation	-28.6707	150.4784

History
Boggabilla is on the traditional land of the Gamilaraay people.

There has been a government gazetted Aboriginal reserve or station in this district on the border between Queensland and New South Wales since ....


 * 1891 - An Aboriginal reserve was originally gazetted at Boggabilla on 8 August 1891.
 * 1896 - a temporary reserve was revoked
 * 1912 - A teacher-manager was appointed to the nearby Euraba reserve, 7 miles from Boomi, west of Boggabilla.
 * 1925 - The station was moved to a new reserve, Toomelah AR 66833, AR 66834, in 1925.
 * 1938 - The Aborigines' Protection Board announced plans for a new Aboriginal settlement on a site of 450 acres at the junction of the Macintyre and Dumaresq Rivers, nine miles from Boggabilla. About 200 Aboriginal people from the Toomelah Station, where the water supply failed, were to be accommodated there.
 * 1984 - The Toomelah Local Aboriginal Land Council became the owner.