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It remains intact today as a museum of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland and is only one of two convict era buildings still standing in Queensland. The other is The Old Windmill on Wickham Terrace. Over twenty years, thousands of convicts passed through the penal colony. Hundreds of these fled the stern conditions and escaped into the ...
1888 Brisbane connected to Sydney by rail with break of gauge at Wallangarra. 1890 The Worker newspaper founded. 1892 The Catholic Age (later Catholic Leader) newspaper founded. 1893 Brisbane flood. 1894 Women's Equal Franchise Association founded. 1894 T.P. Lucas's novel Ruins of Brisbane in the Year 2000. 1895 The Gabba set aside as cricket ...
Brisbane has a number of heritage buildings, some of which date back to the 1820s, including The Old Windmill in Wickham Park, built by convict labour in 1824, [141] which is the oldest surviving building in Brisbane, and the Commissariat Store on William Street, built by convict labour in 1828, which was originally used as a grain house, and ...
Try dishing out some history from 100 years ago gathered by Joyce Harvey. ... a “Home Lighting Contest” began Oct. 2, 1924, and was held because “Statistics show that 25% of school children ...
It is Brisbane's oldest laneway and is named after James Charles Burnett, one of Queensland's earliest surveyors. [11] During the penal colony years, it was used as a prison exercise yard and for floggings and hangings. Later it became the tradesmen's entrance to buildings fronting Queen and Adelaide Streets.
Sep. 4—100 Years Ago Sept. 4, 1923 Every report received from Japan throughout the day on Sept. 3 either confirmed or increased estimates of the havoc wrought in death and destruction by the ...
The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. [1] [2] Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world.
U.S. Marines from Marine Base Quantico descended on Antietam Battlefield for wargames 100 years ago. Antietam National Battlefield will commemorate the event on Labor Day weekend. ... The Today Show.