The name of the Aboriginal clan formerly occupying this area is uncertain. According to one source they are likely to have been the Chepara clan of Eight Mile Plains who spoke Turrbal. The Yerongpan of
Oxley Creek are said to have claimed the area from Brisbane to
Ipswich. Another source claims they were the Yagarabal, who ranged from Brisbane to the
Logan River and west to
Moggill Creek. The original custodians used a trail which later became Logan Road. This trail bisected many creeks including the Mimosa Creek and
Bulimba Creek watercourse. The name Eight Mile Plains was given early in its settlement, and refers to the area's flat topography and the distance () to One Mile Swamp (now
Woolloongabba). In 1861, over in the nearby
Coopers Plains area had been proclaimed the Brisbane Agricultural Reserve. In 1864 this was extended by a further and the Eight Mile Plains Agricultural Reserve was formed. It comprised the current suburbs of
Sunnybank,
Sunnybank Hills,
Runcorn,
Kuraby, Eight Mile Plains and parts of Coopers Plains,
Algester and
Stretton. Joseph Baker took over the licence in 1869 and changed the name to Eight Mile Plains Hotel. In 1875 the hotel became a
Cobb & Co staging post. In 1927, two Scottish sisters Mary-Jane McCamey and Emma O’Sullivan took over the hotel and changed its name to "The Glen", because the undulating countryside reminded them of the area in Scotland where they were born. The O'Sullivan family introduced
wood chopping competitions at the hotel, including a cross saw event with one end being taken by a woman (known today as a Jack and Jill competition). These events attracted huge crowds and led to the formation of the Queensland Axeman's Association which continues to operate wood chopping competitions throughout Queensland and send teams to national and international events. As at 2019, The Glen Hotel continues to trade, making it one of the longest continuously trading hotels in Queensland. However, the school was poorly located on the outskirts of the area and the building was in poor condition and by 1875 there was local agitation for a new building to house the 80 students in a more central location. In June 1880, tenders were called to erect a new school building made of hardwood. In 1896, it became Eight Mile Plains State School. In 1958, the school relocated to its current site with a new school building. In September 1883, 231 allotments of "Logan Railway Estate" were advertised to be auctioned by John Cameron. A map advertising the auction illustrates the proximity of the estate to the
Logan Railway Line. Between 1902 and 1904, the Anglican, Catholic, Lutheran and Methodist communities in the area decided to construct a church on Millers Road that would be shared between them with each denomination holding their services in the church according to a roster until such time as each denomination established its own church. This arrangement continued until it was only the Anglican faith still using the building, when it then became St Paul's Anglican Church. The building was completed in 1976 with the erection of the
spire. Warrigal Road State School opened on 30 January 1979. On 25 August 1980, the
Queensland Government established the Eight Mile Plains Special School on the site to manage the education aspects of the facility (). The school closed on 31 December 1997. Brisbane Technology Park opened in 1986. The park is located on a site that is only 12 minutes from the Brisbane
CBD. The Queensland Clunies Ross Centre for Science and Industry opened at the Technology Park in 1997. In 1988, the Brisbane Sikh Temple was built on Logan Road followed by the Bosnian Mosque in 2014 showing the growing diversity of Eight Mile Plains. In October 2014, a petition was made by 380 residents to excise the north-eastern part of Eight Miles Plains bounded by the
Pacific Motorway and
Bulimba Creek to create a new suburb to be called
Wishart Outlook, the name given to the area by its developers in the 1990s. However, other residents are opposed to the change. == Demographics ==