“Store Cattle Capital of Australia”

Home to the Mandandanji tribe the Roma area was first explored by the New South Wales surveyor General Thomas Mitchell in 1946, after his positive description of the area free settlers soon descended on the location to take up land. In the late 1840s a station was established at Mount Abundance and by the 1860s the area’s first post office was established there.

Roma got its name from Lady Bowen, wife of the first Governor General of Queensland, whose maiden name was Countess Diamantina Georgina Roma. Roma was the first town formed after the separation of Queensland from New South Wales in 1859.

Since this time Roma has continued to grow and now sports a population in excess of 7,000. Cattle and sheep are the main produce from the area. Elegant homes and historic hotels grace the streets of Roma along with many fine public buildings. Other items of interest would have to be the magnificent bottle trees which stand around the town planted in memory of the towns World War I heroes.

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