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Research of the history of Bald Hills and Bracken Ridge Areas of Brisbane Queensland, has been undertaken, with emphasis on the lives of the original settlers of the region. The area known as Bracken Ridge was first mentioned in the media in January 1866, in relation to a prize won by Mr Ferguson for his crop of corn grown on his property known as Brackenridge. The area was first surveyed in 1861, and the lands were granted to the Scottish immigrants who arrived in 1862. These families were granted the land and overtime the area became well known for agricultural purposes. The initial settlers on the lands of Bald Hills, were also Scottish immigrants who arrived after terrible floods at Paterson Flats, near Morpeth in NSW. The Stewarts, Duncans, Carseldine families were all related, as too were most of the new arrivals who settled on the agricultural lands, located between Bald Hills to the west and Sandgate to the east.

Bracken Ridge was proclaimed a suburb by the Brisbane City Council in 1962, 100 years after the original settlers took up their leases.

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