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Bathurst - Convict hospital

Placename
Bathurst - Convict hospital
Layer
Convict Sites - Aust and Norfolk Isl.
Type
Other

Details

Description

Government establishment for convicts. Part of Bathurst town: 'Tradition has it that the first hospital, a government establishment for convicts, was opened in a four-room weatherboard building at the corner of Howick and Bentinck Streets in 1824.' (Wikipedia). Transferred to Colonial administrations in 1842. Destroyed by fire in 1878.

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ID
tc4838

Extended Data

Start Year
1824
End year
1878