The Purga Mission Industrial School, run by the Salvation Army, was established sometime around 1920 when the Salvation Army took control of the Purga Creek Mission. The Industrial School was on the Purga Mission Station (renamed by the Salvation Army as the Purga Aboriginal Colony), which was established in 1915 and situated between the end of Carmichaels Road and Deebing Creek near Ipswich. The School was licensed in 1937 under the State Children Act 1911. State children were first admitted to the Industrial School in 1941, at which time there were 16 children under 16 years old at the school. It closed in 1948, at which time nine State children from the Industrial School were transferred to the custody of the Director of Native Affairs and placed in homes under his Department.
From
c. 1920
To
1948
Alternative Names
Purga Aboriginal Colony
1937 - 1948
Industrial School, Purga Mission Station was situated between the end of Carmichaels Road and Deebing Creek near Ipswich, Queensland (Building State unknown)
