Fairney View, Queensland


Fairney View is a rural locality in the Somerset Region, Queensland, Australia. In the, Fairney View had a population of 223 people.

History

The locality takes its name from a pastoral property called Fairney Lawn operated by grazier Joseph North in 1841. It was also the name of the railway station opened in June 1884 on the now closed Brisbane Valley railway line. Queensland Railways Department records indicate that the meaning of the name Fairney View is ''view of ferns".
Tenders were called for the construction of a school building in Fairney View in October 1895. Fairney View Provisional School opened on 20 January 1896 under the direction of teacher Miss Harris. It became Fairney View State School on 1 January 1909. It closed in 1967.