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Dalrymple Gap Track had its heaviest use in the period 1864–1872. In the late 1860s and early 1870s pastoralists and sugar-growers took up the Herbert River valley, and by early 1871 nearly 100 people were resident on the Herbert. A bridle track was found from the Herbert to Cardwell via Cardwell
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Cardwell Range, approximately 200 metres (660 ft) from Dalrymple's Gap, on the old road between Cardwell and the Valley of Lagoons. It traverses the deep, narrow valley of Damper Creek at about the 300-metre (980 ft) contour. It is a brick-lined culvert
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Dalrymple's Gap, is important in illustrating the early development of this area in the mid-1860s when the connection of pastoral properties on the Tableland with the coast and the establishment of a port were vital to permit development. The
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Queensland government allocated £2,000 to fund further work on the road. In late 1864, a government road party was dispatched to Cardwell. On arrival, Dalrymple proceeded with Mr Conlan, the road party overseer, to mark out the route to be formed through Dalrymple's
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Dalrymple Gap, south of Damper Creek, was constructed in late 1864/early 1865, and is understood to have been part of the first major civil engineering work undertaken in
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