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Woolloomooloo - Stockade

Placename
Woolloomooloo - Stockade
Layer
Convict Sites - Aust and Norfolk Isl.
Type
Other

Details

Description

Stockade erected as early as 1823 to allow convicts to quarry stone for the new gaol. An 1866 report notes that Darlinghurst Gaol was constructed on the site of the former stockade: 'the present walls enclosing the stockade as well as the prisonadmission to the stockade being obtained through a gateway on the eastern wall; this gateway has been for some years closed up; though until very lately the eastern part of the en-closure has been known in the prison as 'The Stockade.'' There are mentions of the stockade until at least 1848, although whether this actually references the gaol is unclear.

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ID
tc4947

Extended Data

Start Year
1836
End year
1837