Download coordinates as: Kedron (/kɛdrən/ KED-rən) is a northern suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Kedron is an inner-northern suburb that neighbours Stafford, Chermside, Wavell Heights, Wooloowin, Lutwyche, and Nundah.

These missionaries were granted 500 acres (2.0 km2) alongside the creek they named Kedron Brook, after Kidron Valley near Jerusalem.

James and Claude Barron worked as a blacksmiths on the corner of Gympie and Stafford Roads.

[6] When gold was discovered in Gympie in 1868, a bridge was constructed over the Kedron Brook to permit an alternative northerly route.

In 1889 he built the Edinburgh Tannery alongside Kedron Creek at the end of Nundah Street.

In 1888 shares were offered in the Kedron Park Racecourse and Sports Ground Co Ltd. A formal race program was held in 1889 but saw little use in the following years.

James Sharp purchased the racecourse in 1911 and changed many hands before it was finally closed in 1931 following a Royal Commission into racing.

[10] A map advertising the auction includes a locality map of the area and states the allotments were within 5 minutes' walk of the new tram terminus, with electric lights at the corner of Turner and Richmond Roads, and water mains in Richmond Road.

[11] In April 1926, approximately 75 allotments of "Scriven's Paddock" (being subdivisions 1 to 38, 43 to 70, and 75, of portion 141 in the Parish of Kedron), described as "parklike blocks," were advertised to be auctioned by Isles, Love & Co Limited.

[13] In April 1928, 31 allotments of the "Richmond Estate" were advertised to be auctioned by Isles, Love, & Co Limited, being resubdivisions of portion 101 in the Parish of Kedron.

[14][15] In April 1929, the Albion congregation of the Church of Christ initiated a six-week mission in a large tent at Kedron.

[18] Land was purchased on Gympie Road to establish a permanent church, which was built by volunteer labour on two successive Saturdays, 18 and 25 May 1929 with the first service held on 2 June 1929.

[24][25] St Anthony's and St Therese's Catholic School was officially opened by Archbishop Duhig on Sunday 26 January 1930,[25][26][27] ten days after the arrival of the three Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception who were to run the school.

It contains more than 100 gravestones of servicemen, the majority of whom gave their life in World War II.

[25][29] Mount Alvernia College opened on 1 February 1956; it was run by the Missionary Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.

[25][30] St James' Anglican Church at 28 Tenth Avenue (corner of Glen Kedron Lane, 27°24′22″S 153°02′11″E / 27.4060°S 153.0365°E / -27.4060; 153.0365 (St James' Anglican Church (former))) was dedicated on 6 November 1960 by Coadjutor Bishop Horace Henry Dixon.

76.1% of people living in Kedron were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were New Zealand 3.2%, England 2.8%, India 1.4%, Italy 1.1%, Philippines 0.9%.

84.7% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 2% Italian, 0.6% Mandarin, 0.5% Tagalog, 0.5% Cantonese, 0.5% Spanish.