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Rollands Plains Sugar Plantation and Mill - Agricultural establishment

Placename
Rollands Plains Sugar Plantation and Mill - Agricultural establishment
Layer
Convict Sites - Aust and Norfolk Isl.
Type
Other

Details

Description

1830 Sale notice: 2560 Acres, on the Sth Bank of the River Wilson, with 164 acres for cultivation incl. 88 acres of sugar cane. ' The buildings consist of 1st. An extensive Brick Building for making Sugar, two Stories high, now used the lower part as a Commissariat Store, the upper Story, Sth Wing by a Military Guard capable of containing 30 Men, the Nth Wing, a comfortable Residence.... 2d. A Sugar and Flour Mill, substantially built and in good repair... . 3d. Two good Slab Cottages, and one large Slab Shed. 4th. Overseer's House, weather-boarded, four Rooms with Kitchen and Outhouses ... 5th. Prisoners' Barracks...; six Huts...' and two extensive Slab Tobacco Sheds'.

Sources

ID
tc47ef

Extended Data

Start Year
1821
End year
1831