Download coordinates as: Mount Garnet is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia.

These include Tableland Tin, Innot Hot Springs, Silver Valley and Battle Creek.

Mount Garnet is at the south-western edge of the Atherton Tableland and on the Kennedy Highway.

Mount Garnet is 161 kilometres (100 mi) south-west of Cairns via the Bruce Highway, Gillies Range Road, Lake Barrine Road, State Route 25, State Route 24 and the Kennedy Highway.

[citation needed] Mining isn't the only industry at Mount Garnet, some of the best cattle producing properties are in the district.

[citation needed] Warungu (also known as Warrungu, Warrongo, and Waroongoo) is an Australian Aboriginal language in North Queensland.

The language region includes areas from the Upper Herbert River to Mount Garnet.

[citation needed] In 1882, Albert Vollenweider discovered copper (and garnet) in the area formerly known as Mullaburra Station.

In 1928, a coal-fired dredge was built but didn't prove to be so successful losing more ore it retrieved.

[citation needed] In the 1930s, several cattle stations were established within the community as well as farms that grew many crops, including tobacco, potatoes, corn and peanuts.

[citation needed] On Sunday 14 November 1937, Bishop John Feetham laid the corner block of a new Anglican church.

In return cattle station owners provided horses and bulls for their entertainment with races and rodeo.

This reserve now boasts a first class rodeo ground, racecourse and golf club, the greens being inside the racetrack, and permanent camps.

[citation needed] In June 1939, tenders were called to relocate the Catholic church at Mungana to Mount Garnet.

The church began to be pulled down in July 1939 and was then transported to Mount Garnet by train.

[24][25] On Sunday 1 October 1939, the Holy Rosary Catholic Church was officially opened and dedicated by Bishop John Heavey as part of a weekend of celebrations.

The walls were painted a rich brown with Gothic windows and fascias picked out in white.

However, the travel time to Ravenshoe from the north and west of the locality may be unrealistic; other options would be distance education and boarding school.

It took another eleven years before trains could officially negotiate the bridge to the Mount Garnet station.

[39] During the life of the railway, minerals, timber, cattle and crops were moved to coastal ports and goods, mining machinery were brought in.

Culverts along the track were remarkably made by stonemasons and still stand with many still serving their purpose by channelling water through to creeks and gullies.