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

[citation needed] It is situated on the basalt upland section of the Darling Downs of southern Queensland which is undulating in nature and hosts mixed farming and intensive animal industries.

Nearby is an alluvial flood plain, mostly leading directly to the north branch of the Condamine River.

[citation needed] Early settlement was driven by the taking up of land for the Beauaraba pastoral station.

The town grew up around a wayside hotel, named the Beauaraba, which attracted itinerant rural workers and local landholders.

[14] The first St Andrew's Anglican Church was designed by the prominent Toowoomba architect John Marks in 1888-89.

[17][15][18][19] After a number of years of pastoral settlement, the town was established and slowly grew to offer services for the surrounding agricultural industries.

[20] It was noted by the correspondent for the Darling Downs Gazette that "the milk brought by the suppliers is of a very high quality, comparing favourably with the highest tests in the colony.

The cheese turned out of this factory, I may state, is of excellent quality, and is finding a ready market throughout many of the Northern towns.

[22]The first Pittsworth Show was held in March 1902, and opened by the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Samuel Griffith, and attended by an estimated 2,500 people.

[25] By 1914, Pittsworth had a number of dairy factories which were producing about 80 per cent of all the cheese being manufactured on the Darling Downs.

The convent building at 26 Weale Street had been used for some years as a parish centre, and was listed by the Pittsworth Shire Council for its heritage values, but the church was unable to afford the upkeep of the building, and it was sold for relocation in December 2013, being taken to 1154 Yandina Coolum Road, Maroochy River and restored as a private residence.

[42] At the meeting held in the Masonic Hall to consider opening a branch in Pittsworth, the Darling Downs organiser, Mrs. Fairfax, explained that "the main object of members was to work for their sisters that were less fortunate than themselves, and spoke of the benefits of the reduced railway fares, the education of children out back, the homes at the seaside, and the bush nurses, and various other branches of work that is handled by the Association.

[43] The Beuaraba Branch still meets in Pittsworth at the Uniting Church Hall, Briggs Street.

[46] On 7 January 2016, around 2:30 am, a fire broke out at Pittsworth's iconic Tattersalls Club Hotel, which was built about 1900.

The hotel was engulfed by flames by the time fire crews arrived, and was unable to be saved.

[15] An important attraction in the town is the Pittsworth & District Historical Society Folk Museum.

The Pittsworth Museum combines a fine collection of old buildings – the former Pittsworth Post Office, the telephone exchange, the post masters residence, the former one teacher school, a fully furnished cottage (circa 1900) and a blacksmith shop[62] – with some historical memorabilia.

Items include a chantilly lace wrap which once belonged to Florence Nightingale, a love letter written by Governor Bligh's mother, and an outdoor display of carts and farm equipment.

The museum is also home to a display of memorabilia boasting the feats of Arthur Postle, known as the "Crimson Flash",[63] Australia and the world's one time fastest athlete.