Download coordinates as: Meringandan is a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.

Fred had reveled in Australian country life and had quickly become an accomplished bushman and station manager.

[citation needed] In 1854, Fred, who had gone home to England for a visit, married his half-cousin, Caroline Sophia née Sparkes (1835-1913), and then returned to run Gowrie.

By 1860, Henry Isaac had had enough of the pioneering life, so he sold his share of Gowrie to Fred, and returned to England, where he died shortly afterwards.

George King's sons initially continued to manage the property for sheep raising but later also bred horses for the Indian remount trade.

[citation needed] It is local folklore that the first white child born in the Meringandan area was Eliza Hunt, her father being an overseer and stockman on the estate.

[citation needed] The Lands Alienation Act of 1868 meant that the Meringandan portion of Gowrie Station was resumed and thrown open for settlement.

As Meringandan had a railway station, the settlers in the Goombungee and Haden areas used it to forward their goods.

[citation needed] In the early 1900s a line of teams stretching a distance of half a mile, waiting to load or unload at the railway station, was a familiar sight.

[6]St Gregory's Anglican Church was consecrated on Sunday 12 September 1886 by Bishop William Webber.

[7] It was located on a 1-acre (0.40 ha) piece of land near the railway station, donated by Mr Foland.

[9] On Sunday 2 February 1896, a new Lutheran church opened replacing the previous one that had become dilapidated over its quarter century of use.

[citation needed] Before 1900, the farmers' wives baked their own bread, but early in the century a bakery was established by O. Wuersching, the first baker employed being Walls.