Ingham

Ingham

      town, northeastern Queensland, Australia, 19 miles (31 km) upstream from the mouth of the Herbert River. Founded in 1864, it was gazetted a shire in 1879. On a rail line and the Bruce Highway from Brisbane (745 miles [1,199 km] southeast), the town serves important sugarcane plantations, pioneered in the 1870s by William Ingham, for whom the town is named. The area also yields tobacco, beef, and timber. Pop. (2006) 4,726.

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