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Attractions include the Ipswich Art Gallery, the Workshops Rail Museum, steam trains, more than 500 parks, wineries, and cafes, restaurants, cinemas and shopping centres. Ipswich hosts regular national and local festivals and events such as the Queensland Open Golf Championships, Ipswich Cup-the city’s annual major horse race, Winternationals car drag races, Ipswich Festival and Ipswich Show. HISTORY The area was first explored by European colonists in 1826 , when Captain Patrick Logan, commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony, sailed along the river and discovered large deposits of Limestone and other minerals. In 1827 , the first convicts and overseers arrived to mine the area, and the town that built around this industry became known as Limestone, and is remembered by one of the main streets through the city centre named Limestone Street to this day. In 1843 , the settlement officially became known as Ipswich, making Ipswich the oldest provincial city in Queensland. Mining of coal and other valuable minerals continued well into the 20th Century . Ipswich has suffered somewhat from this establishment as a mining city, but recent efforts have made strides in improving its reputation. Ipswich was proclaimed as a municipality on March 2 , 1860 , and became a city in 1904 . A refurbishment of the city mall, a huge shopping centre on the outer city is well under way and a new hotel has been erected. ECONOMY It is the site of the RAAF Base Amberley , the largest operational Royal Australian Air Force base in Australia . Based here are the 1st and 6th Squadrons, flying F-111 strike Aircraft , and 38 Squadron's Caribou transport aircraft. Ipswich is also home to a in Queensland from Ipswich to Grandchester , approximately 25km to the west. The present Ipswich Station is a major transport interchange. A large shopping complex is being developed in the Springfield suburb which was, when designed (and possibly when completed), the largest shopping centre in the Southern Hemisphere . Accompanying this is a satellite campus of the University Of Southern Queensland , which has its primary campus in Toowoomba . PROMINENT LOCALS Sportspeople
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