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The Early Streets of Brisbane is a heritage-listed archaeological site at sections of Albert Street, George Street, William Street, North Quay, and Queen's Wharf Road in Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1825 onwards.
Skew Street, North Quay: First Brisbane Burial Ground, established in 1825 [15] Commissariat Store, built by convicts in 1828 [16] Early Streets of Brisbane, laid out from 1825 during the penal settlement [1] Archaeological investigations at 40 Queen Street (Brisbane Square) also found remains dating to the penal period. The remnants of the ...
Eulalia is significant for its association with its first owner, the Hon. Patrick Real Senior who was a prominent Brisbane lawyer and Puisne Judge in the early 1890s and is perpetuated in the surrounding streets, including Judge, Patrick and Real Streets. Katherine Street is named after a family member. [1]
In 1865 the Brisbane Hebrew Congregation was first officially established, after worshiping and congregating in private homes up until 1864(Arnold,Creese 159). One of the oldest synagogues in the Queensland area is the Brisbane Synagogue located in Margaret Street in Brisbane city.
William Street is a small, relatively quiet road in the uptown part of the Brisbane central business district. The street is historically significant to the city's early development as a penal colony. The first convict buildings were built along William Street in 1825.
The building remained intact into the 1880s but like similar early houses in the central business district they have been demolished and the land redeveloped. [3] View along George Street, Brisbane towards the Brisbane Technical College, with the Menzies Hotel on the left and The Mansions on the right, circa 1919
Elizabeth Street is a major street in the centre of the city in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The street was one of the earliest in Brisbane being established at the beginning of settlement in Brisbane as Moreton Bay penal settlement . [ 1 ]
Before 1842 and free settlement, Queen Street was originally a track leading from the main section of the early Moreton Bay Penal Colony, crossing a stream known as Wheat Creek with a deviation going up to the Windmill. In early 1840, a surveyor named Dixon drew up a survey for the central Brisbane streets with all streets 66 feet (20 metres) wide.