Cassowary Coast Who's Who
YOUR COMMUNITY. YOUR CONNECTIONS.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Cassowary Coast
🌟 José Paronella
José Paronella transformed land beside Mena Creek into the extraordinary pleasure gardens of Paronella Park. Arriving from Catalonia in 1913, he worked in the cane industry before buying the site in 1929. With his wife Margarita, he developed gardens, reception facilities and castle-like concrete buildings intended for public enjoyment. Railway track supplied reinforcement, while hand-applied plaster retained the marks of the work. Flood damage in 1946 brought a major rebuilding effort. His creation remains a distinctive Cassowary Coast story of migration, engineering and an unusually ambitious idea for a garden.
