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Latitude
-27.4651
Longitude
153.013
Start Date
1860
End Date
1883

Description

Almost from its opening in 1860, Brisbane Gaol on Petrie Terrace was overcrowded. In 1867 the quarantine station on St Helena Island started to be used as a gaol to relieve the strain, and in 1870 female prisoners at Petrie Terrace were relocated to the Toowoomba Gaol. The Petrie Terrace Gaol was finally able to close in 1883 with the completion of the Boggo Road Gaol in South Brisbane. The Petrie Terrace site was used as a police barracks from 1885 until the mid-1980s, as well as a training centre for the Queensland Defence Force. Many of the former police buildings remain intact, but have since been redeveloped as a retail and commercial precinct named The Barracks.

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t92c