Glass House Mountains, Queensland

Glass House Mountains is a rural hinterland town and locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The town also has a train station and a railway line that runs northwards towards Northern Queensland and southwards to Brisbane.

[5] Land around the Glass House Mountains railway station was auctioned by the Queensland Government on Wednesday 28 October 1903.

[6] Glass Mountains Provisional School opened on 17 April 1906, but closed in 1907 due to low student numbers.

[11] In August 2011, the remains of teenager Daniel Morcombe were found at Kings Road in Glass House Mountains.

[20][21] The Sunshine Coast Regional Council operates a mobile library service which visits the Community Hall.

[24] The original European farmers that settled in the area brought soccer with them, and it has remained a popular local sport.

Advertising land sale in Glass House Mountains under the title "Pineapple Farms Beerwah", 1903