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Eagle Farm - Female factory

Placename
Eagle Farm - Female factory
Layer
Convict Sites - Aust and Norfolk Isl.
Type
Other

Details

Description

Female convicts in Brisbane started to be removed to the Eagle Farm agricultural establishment to reduce fraternisation. SIte consisted of a number of slab buildings inlcuding a school, hospital (plastered), workhouse, needle room, several four-roomed accommodation buildings and a block of six cells surrounded by a double fence with the outer a stockade of poles 17 feet (5.2 metres) high.

Sources

ID
tc4848

Extended Data

Start Year
1830
End year
1839