Biggenden is a rural town and locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Biggenden had a population of 788 people.
Biggenden's main street
Biggenden Bismuth Mine, 1908
Opening of the Biggenden CWA building, October 1928
Picture Theatre, Biggenden, Queensland, 1975
Paradise is a town on the Burnett River, in Queensland, Australia, within the present-day locality of Coringa in the North Burnett Region. Although it is still officially gazetted as a town, the town
Biggenden
…from the Kabi word bigindhan meaning a place of stringybark. Biggenden was founded in 1889 as a service centre to the short-lived goldrush towns of Paradise and Shamrock; and for coach passengers travelling west from Maryborough. The township, including the intriguingly named Live And Let Live Inn, moved…
Wesleyan Methodist parsonage (left) and church (right), 1892