February 1988 which continues to operate from the site. School of Arts The building now known as the School of Arts was the town's first post and telegraph office which was built and opened in November 1883. Shortly after opening, the post office was relocated to the Emu Park Railway Station and the building became the School of Arts. Emu Park's first library was opened in the School of Arts in 1902 with Rose McLelland becoming the town's first librarian. Another librarian, Mary Morris, was credited with having a dance hall built on land beside the School of Arts in 1921 but it was destroyed in a fire on 27 December 1945. The current Emu Park Library opened in 1984 after the School of Arts became a medical centre in 1983, before eventually being donated to the Emu Park Museum in 2007. Post office The Emu Park Post Office was eventually relocated from the railway station to Pattison Street where the Edmistone family ran it for 65 years. It was eventually relocated again to the Emu Park Arcade in Granville Street and taken over by Kerry Kay in 1997 who ran it until his retirement in 2021. The Emu Park Post Office was relocated again to its existing location in the former general store on the corner of Hill Street and Pattison Street in April 2018. Community Arts Centre The Emu Park Community Arts Centre was officially opened on 9 December 2021, with the first exhibition in the venue being held on 11 December 2021. Livingstone Shire Council obtained $1.1 million from the state government for the project with the council also allocating $200,000 to the facility. The new arts centre was built where the railway station once stood, after the former art gallery was closed in 2019 when the building it had been situated in for 15 years was sold. Population At the Emu Park had a population of 2,021. In the the locality of Emu Park had a population of 2,130 people. Some of the descendants of the Woppaburra people evicted from their homeland in the Greater and South Keppel islands live in both Emu Park and Yeppoon. Heritage listings Emu Park has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Bell Park, Hill Street () Education Emu Park State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 26 Fountain Street (). In 2018, the school