First Free Settlers Monument, Heritage monument in Nundah, Australia

The First Free Settlers Monument is a blunt octagonal cairn of rusticated sandstone blocks that tapers towards the top and rises straight from the grass without a step or platform. It stands at the corner of Sandgate Road and Bage Street in Nundah, inside a small curved park edged by a low clipped plumbago hedge. Four bronze plaques are fixed to its faces, and the penultimate course of stonework carries gilded incised lettering reading "Queensland's First Free Settlers".

The monument was unveiled on Easter Saturday, 23 April 1938, during Nundah's celebration of the centenary of free European settlement in Queensland. It was proposed by George Joy Walker, who had arrived at the Zion settlement as an infant when his father became tutor to the settlers' families; he died in 1933 before seeing it built. Governor Sir Leslie Orme Wilson unveiled the cairn for the First Free Settlers Committee, and the ceremony was broadcast by radio station 4QG.

The inscriptions honor the Protestant missionaries and skilled workers whose efforts shaped the early community in this region. Their names are carved into the stone, making this place a record of those who helped establish the settlement.

The site is easily reached from Sandgate Road and located at a visible intersection, making it straightforward to find and approach. The surrounding park area is freely accessible and offers a good vantage point for viewing the monument and reading the inscriptions.

The monument was designed to rise straight from the turf without a step or platform, which the First Free Settlers Committee said symbolised European civilisation growing out of the soil of Nundah. Its gilded incised lettering reads "Queensland's First Free Settlers", with the word "free" set above the plaque naming the settlers.