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Brisbane Government garden - Agricultural station

Placename
Brisbane Government garden - Agricultural station
Layer
Convict Sites - Aust and Norfolk Isl.
Type
Other

Details

Description

BUDDE (2021) notes that the settlement gardens grew maize, vegetables (including cabbage, cauliflower, peas, beans, potatoes, and pumpkins), and fruit (including banana, pineapple, citrus, and apple. 'There was a small hut where convicts would strip the maize kernels from the cobs before carrying the sacks to the windmill. There was a small piggery next to the corn shed'. Thirty- 35 convicts were employed on the agrdens, with as many as 40 women from the Female factory working on the other side of Wheat Creek.

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ID
tc47f4

Extended Data

Start Year
1825
End year
1839