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Entrance to the gaol, c. 1936 In the 1850s, the district where the gaol was subsequently located was known unofficially as "Boggo" or "Boggo Scrub", and by the late 1850s the track through the area was known as Boggo Road.
The gaol was closed in 1903 after the prisoners were transferred to Boggo Road Gaol [5] and demolition commenced. Some of the hand-made bricks (using clay dug from pits in Queens Park [ 3 ] ) from the demolished structure were used to build the Boer Wall Memorial Gateway [ 4 ] at the Margaret Street end of East Creek Park near the Mother's ...
The gaol was intended to function as the principal prison in north Queensland. It was the only maximum-security prison established in North Queensland in the nineteenth century, ranking alongside St Helena Gaol (opened in 1866), the Rockhampton Gaol at North Street (1876–1878), and the South Brisbane Men's Prison at Boggo Road (opened 1883 ...
By the 1920s, the prison had begun to show its age. In its later years, after the majority of prisoners and the workshops had been removed to the Boggo Road Gaol on the mainland, [5] the island became a prison farm for trusties, with a few dozen resident inmates tenaciously dismantling the ageing edifice. Many prison buildings remain.
Hanged at Boggo Road Gaol for the murder of Lee Chay Yuen in Townsville [63] August Millewski – 16 December 1907 – Hanged at Boggo Road Gaol for the murder of an Indian man, Wallum Nabby, near Nananga [64] Bismarck – 19 April 1909 – Indigenous. Hanged at Boggo Road Gaol for the murder of Janet Evitts at Jundah [65] [66]
Dawson, Christopher; Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society (2008), The one and only Boggo Road : the history of a unique suburban street (1st ed.), Inside History (Boggo Road Gaol Historical Society), ISBN 978-0-9804174-1-8
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It included a 640-metre-long (2,100 ft) tunnel built under the old Boggo Road Gaol. [6] Tunnelling was done with a Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau AM105 roadheader machine. [6] A second tunnel passes under the Pacific Motorway to connect with the South East Busway at Buranda.