The Kingaroy Heritage Museum is adjoined to the Kingaroy Information Centre. Peanuts are the predominant theme in this museum, with other heritage items from the area.
The machinery from the peanut industry start from early examples adapted from other agriculture equipment, such as a planter originally built as a corn planter and modified to plant peanuts, and wheat threshers converted to thresh peanuts.
In the early 1920’s, machinery was not available specific to the peanut industry. Local farmers invented the equipment needed, some of the designs are still used today.
The distinctive threshers are large pieces of machinery, two of which dominate the floor space inside the museum, and another outside at the entrance in the back street.
The rest of the museum is of various heritage items. There is a small military section and a collection of school items. The Teasmade automated tea maker was a first for me. I found out it was an alarm clock and tea maker in one, making a fresh cup of tea to wake up to in the morning. This electric Teasmade was bought in 1945.
