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Castlemaine Gaol 1

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Australian Prisons
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Latitude
-37.0636
Longitude
144.22
Start Date
1852
End Date
1861

Description

With the influx of migrants to the goldfields at Castlemaine in the 1850s, there was a pressing need for a prison to service the local area. The existing police watch-house building was therefore declared a prison in 1852, so that it could be used as a place where sentences could be served (rather than just hold those under arrest). However, within the decade it became clear that a purpose-built prison was required to house the growing number of inmates, leading to the old gaol's closing when a new facility opened at Castlemaine in 1861.

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