Extract date: 24/11/2024
| Name | Alex Gory Park |
|---|---|
| Type Designation | Urban Park |
| Place Id | 3004 |
| Place Type | Park or Cemetery |
| Status | Registered |
| Date Registered | 10 April 1991 |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -13° 49' S (Decimal degrees -13.81924) | |
| Longitude: 131° 49' E (Decimal degrees 131.83222) | |
| Locality / Suburb | |
| Pine Creek | |
| Lot/Portion | |
| Town of Pine Creek | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Victoria-Daly Shire Council | |
| History/Origin | Named after Alex Gory, who is believed to have been born in 1881 in southern Russia. He was conscripted to fight in the Russo-Japanese war in 1905. He left his home country in 1912 and travelled via Africa and New Guinea where he prospected for gold before settling in Brisbane for 3 years. He then moved north to Cairns and travelled the country as a peanut farmer, railway fettler and tin prospector. In 1953 he returned to Pine Creek, his adopted home town since 1915, and settled into his first home, a tin shed behind the bakery where he tended a vegetable garden and looked after Angora goats. Gory died in February 1989, aged 107 years, a revered and respected pioneer of Pine Creek. |
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 10/04/1991 | NTG14 |