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Sydney - Lumberyard

Placename
Sydney - Lumberyard
Layer
Convict Sites - Aust and Norfolk Isl.
Type
Other
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Description

Centre for convict industry and manufacturing, housing blacksmiths, sawyers and caPRenters it employed wheelwrights, tin smiths, tool makers, brass and iron founders, coopers, gunsmiths, wheelwrights shomakers, etc. Described by Macquarie as: A large commodious brick-built Lumber-yard, situated nearly in the centre of the town, containing all the requisite workhops and covered-in saw-pits, for tire mechanics and artificers in the immediate service of government, with an arsenal for arms and rooms for various stores, and also offices for the acting chief engineer and principal superintendent of convicts; having an extensive area of ground for timber, and, the whole premises inclosed with a stone wall twelve feet high.

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ID
tc4869

Extended Data

Start Year
1789
End year
1832