Memerambi, Queensland

Download coordinates as: Memerambi is a rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.

[1] The town is on the Bunya Highway, 239 kilometres (149 mi) north west of the state capital, Brisbane.

It was on the corner of Corndale Road and Earl Street (26°27′05″S 151°49′26″E / 26.451455°S 151.824°E / -26.451455; 151.824 (Memerambi Methodist Church)).

a bustling centre with a hotel, two general stores, saddlery, butcher, bank, mobile sawmill and cheese factory.

[citation needed] In the 2006 census, the locality of Memerambi and the surrounding area had a population of 541 people.

businesses in Memerambi include 'Stop Shop' general store; clock repairs; large machinery & engineering works; pharmaceutical manufacturing; stock feed store; graziers; concreting & pool construction.

[20] Arthur Benjamin Postle, a professional sprinter known as "The Crimson Flash", was acclaimed "the fastest man in the world" in 1906.

[21] Ben and Harry Young, of Memerambi, pioneers of the South Burnett peanut industry, planted the first commercial crop of peanuts in the South Burnett in 1919.

Old closed shops on Bunya Highway, main street in Memerambi, 2023
Mr T. J. Kingston and family, first storekeepers of Memerambi, circa 1910