Hoop Pines, Bald Hills, Historical trees at St Paul's Anglican School in Bald Hills, Australia.
The Hoop Pines are two Araucaria cunninghamii trees at 34 Strathpine Road, in front of the Administration Building of St Paul's Anglican School, Bald Hills. The taller tree is a remnant old-growth specimen about 190 years old; the smaller, about 140 years old, may have been planted or grown from its seed. Both were added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 22 February 2002.
The trees mark the location of the original Stewart Farmhouse, established during the 1850s by one of the first European families to settle in the area. The older specimen existed before that homestead was built, indicating these pines were naturally present in the region before colonial development.
The name Bald Hills derives from the open, grassy ridgelines the Stewart and Duncan families chose for their farms above the South Pine River in 1857. The area was known to Aboriginal people as Wyampa. The two pines stand before the Administration Building of St Paul's Anglican School, on land that passed from dairy farming to education.
The trees stand at the entrance of St Paul's Anglican School and are visible from Strathpine Road, making them easy to locate and spot from the street. Visitors can see them when viewing the school grounds from public areas, and they serve as natural landmarks for finding the administration area.
The larger tree predates European settlement in the area and stands as evidence of the original pine forests that drew colonial settlers to explore and inhabit the Moreton Bay region. This single specimen carries the memory of a landscape that existed before the district's transformation.
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