Moon Memorial Tree Reserve

The Moon Memorial Tree Reserve was donated to the National Trust of Queensland in 1966 by the Trust’s founder and first president, William Richer Moon, in memory of his parents and other Brookfield pioneers. Brookfield had played an important role in the development of early Brisbane, supplying most of Brisbane’s timber until the 1870s. Timber-getting continued to the mid-twentieth century, although dairying had become the area’s primary industry by the end of the nineteenth century. Thomas Moon had purchased the ‘Westwood’ farm in Brookfield in 1882, running the property with wife Susan. In 1945 Moon’s son William set aside seven acres of the farm for revegetation, and planted a stand of hoop trees as a memorial to his parents in 1959. ‘Pioneer Avenue’, a memorial to local pioneers, was opened in 1988. The reserve is a green space in expanding suburbia which has a connection with Brookfield pioneers the Moon family, as well as the founder of the National Trust of Queensland.