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Longbottom - Agricultural Station

Placename
Longbottom - Agricultural Station
Layer
Convict Sites - Aust and Norfolk Isl.
Type
Other
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Description

c700 acre farm est. halfway between Sydney and Parramatta, incorporating a timber station to clear the land. Desc. by Macquarie as: 4 weather boarded Barracks, for one superintendent, two overseers, and forty convict labourers, employed hire to cut and saw timber for the public buildings'. Charcoal for the forges and foundries was also prepared there. Reduced in scale in 1838 and used as a base for the Mounted Police with a stockade for prisoners travelling between Sydney and Pmatta. Used to detain Canadian Exiles 1840-44.

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ID
tc484e

Extended Data

Start Year
1819
End year
1838