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Brisbane Government garden - Agricultural station

Placename: Brisbane Government garden - Agricultural station
Layer: Convict Landscapes - Australia and Norfolk Island
Link back to source:: https://convictlandscapes.com.au/australia/
Type: Other

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Latitude: -27.475538
Longitude: 153.028756
Start Date: 1825
End Date: 1839

Description

BUDDE (2021) notes that the settlement gardens grew maize, vegetables (including cabbage, cauliflower, peas, beans, potatoes, and pumpkins), and fruit (including banana, pineapple, citrus, and apple. 'There was a small hut where convicts would strip the maize kernels from the cobs before carrying the sacks to the windmill. There was a small piggery next to the corn shed'. Thirty- 35 convicts were employed on the agrdens, with as many as 40 women from the Female factory working on the other side of Wheat Creek.

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