Paluma, Queensland

Paluma is a town in the City of Townsville and a locality split between the City of Townsville and the Charters Towers Region in Queensland, Australia. In the the locality of Paluma had a population of 68 people.
It is in the Mount Spec Ranges and is the southernmost point of Townsville's heritage-listed Wet Tropics.
Geography.
The now-closed Greenvale railway line passed through the locality which was served by the now-abandoned Girrinjah railway station ().
History.
The area was originally known as Cloudy Clearing until it was renamed Paluma in 1934.
It developed from a mining and forestry background. The first people to arrive here were tin prospectors in the 1870s after an abundance of tin in the mountains. The area remained isolated until a road was built up the range in the 1930s. This industry lasted for years until landowners worked together to shut it down. The tin industry was using the creeks for washing the tin, however this was incompatible with using the creeks for the Paluma's water supply.
Paluma Temporary School opened on 28 September 1950, becoming Paluma State School in 1952. The school closed on 19 July 1968 due to falling enrolments.
The Paluma Environmental Education Centre was established in 1977 by the Queensland Department of Education on the site of Paluma State School.
In the the locality of Paluma had a population of 68 people.
Heritage listings.
The Mount Spec Road and Little Crystal Creek Bridge is a heritage-listed road with stone-faced arch bridge in the Mount Spec Ranges built in 1933. It is the only arch road bridge that remains in service in Queensland. Crystal clear water flows down the creek filling the deep pools of Little Crystal Creek, making it an excellent natural swimming hole. It is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.
Education.
Paluma Environmental Education Centre is an Outdoor and Environmental Education Centre at 53 Mt Spec Road (). The school provides students from years 1 to 12 the opportunity to engage with the natural environment with one of the classrooms built underneath the canopy of the forest.