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Christmas Closure 2023

Christmas Closure Dates for 2023: The Caboolture Historical Village will be closed over the Christmas period. Our gates will close at 4pm on Thursday 21 December 2023 and will re-open at 9am on Tuesday 2 January 2024. The Caboolture Historical Society Inc. would like to wish everyone all the very best for the festive season….

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Halloween 2023

Halloween 2023

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September School Holiday Activities

This September school holidays The Village is entertaining the young people with craft ideas, gem sieving, educational demonstrations as well as a sausage sizzle! Mark the dates in your calendar and we look forward to seeing you here in September school holidays.

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Heritage Day – 22 July 2023

Heritage Day at the Caboolture Historical Village. Saturday 22 July 2023.

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Paralympian – Mick Ozanne

Wheelchair Rugby originated in Canada in 1977 and was created to be a sport for Tetraplegics. The game was originally called Murderball due to its aggressive, full-contact nature. The first ever international tournament was held in Toronto, Canada in 1989. The first Wheelchair Rugby World Championships were held in Nottwii, Switzerland in 1995. Wheelchair rugby…

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The Computing Scale

The Village has several sets of scales on display ranging from the large ones in the Railway Station to the small ones in the Post Office, and the Avery scales in the Grocery Store but the set that deserve special mention are the ones in the Butchers Shop. You are probably asking why that would…

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Vintage Motorised Wheelchair

The village has a small piece of history in the form of a three-wheeled motorised invalid’s chair produced around 1946 and powered by a Ducati 48cc motor. This invalid chair was donated to the Caboolture Historical Society Inc. over 15 years ago and is usually given a good run on most of our event days….

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The Corbillard, Hearse or Funeral Coach

A Funeral is a ceremony connected with the final resting place of a deceased person. Funerals have been around since modern Homo sapiens at least 300,000 years ago, some even believe from before this as well. The Village received a very generous donation of a horse drawn Funeral Coach from the General Manager of Traditional…

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