Macknade Sugar Mill, Herbert River, ca. 1930 - Halifax, Queensland

Macknade Sugar Mill, Herbert River, ca. 1930

1930 • Mill Road, Macknade, Halifax, Queensland, 4850, Australia

Discover the Macknade Sugar Mill in Macknade, Halifax, as it appeared around 1930, featuring the sprawling CSR-era complex, cane trains, and office buildings.

Neames and Wallers built Macknade on the Herbert River floodplain; crushing began in 1874. By about 1930 a State Library of Queensland panorama shows cane trains and office buildings beside the sprawling CSR-era complex near Ingham. Macknade remains one of Wilmar’s north Queensland mills, paired with Victoria Mill a few kilometres inland — together they crush much of the Herbert district’s cane.