Yugembah (also known as Yugumbir, Jugambel, Jugambeir, Jugumbir, Jukam, Jukamba) is an
Australian Aboriginal languages of South East Queensland. The Yugembah language areas include Gold Coast, Logan, Scenic Rim,
Tweed River Valley,
Albert River,
Beaudesert,
Beenleigh,
Coolangatta,
Coomera,
Logan River,
Pimpama and
Tamborine, within the local government boundaries of the
City of Gold Coast, City of Logan,
Scenic Rim Regional Council and the Tweed River Valley. The Commandant of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Captain
Patrick Logan, was a compulsive explorer and in 1826 on his first expedition he discovered the
Logan River. He noted the river was well suited to large-vessel traffic and was a first-class avenue to access the high-quality arable land along its banks. He named the country Darling, in honour of the Governor. The Governor renamed the river after Logan. One of the first large employers was the timber industry. The penal settlement based in
Brisbane was closed in 1841 and the land was quickly taken up by squatters. The first leases of land in the Logan area were issued from 1849 and immigration was encouraged following the separation from NSW in 1859. The declaration of the Logan and Eight Mile Plains Agricultural Reserves in 1862 led to extensive settlement of the area. German immigrants arrived in batches from the 1864 onwards. Generous land orders for immigrants in Queensland created a drawcard in the possibility of owning their own farm. A cotton gin, which was converted to a sugar mill, was built at Loganholme in 1867. Significant flooding occurred in Logan during the
1974 Brisbane flood. The Wild Water Water Slide Park began operations in October 1982. The site was to become the
Logan Hyperdome with the first work on the regional shopping centre beginning in October 1988. It was officially opened in July 1989. Construction work on the
Logan Hospital started in February 1989. In 2017, a
water treatment plant at Round Mountain became the first in Australia to be powered entirely off-grid.
Establishment of Logan in 1908 which was until 1948 in the former
Shire of Beenleigh The Department of Local Government instigated the formation of the new Logan Shire, which included the northern suburbs of both
Albert and
Beaudesert Shires. A section in the north previously belonged to the
Shire of Tingalpa. There were about 69,000 people living to the north of the Logan River. On 31 May 1978, Local Government Minister
Russ Hinze introduced the Local Government (Adjustment of Boundaries) Bill and which was officially approved on 8 June 1978. Logan then was declared a city on 1 January 1981 == Demographics ==