Mareeba Meeting of the Waters Jockeys Celebration Day
The word the town derived its name from, Mareeba, has its source in an Aboriginal term meaning meeting of the waters. Prior to settlement by Europeans, the area around where the town now stands was inhabited by the Muluridji people, Aborigines who maintained a hunter-gatherer existence mainly concentrated in the vicinity between Mount Molloy and Bibhoora. The meeting of the waters that the name refers to points to the place where Granite Creek meets the Barron River. The first European…