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Public Buildings and Works
undertaken during the Administration of Governor Lachlan Macquarie [1 JANUARY
1810 TO 30 NOVEMBER 1821]
AT EMU PLAINS
1. A brick built
House, one story and a half high, for the residence and accommodation
of the Superintendent of Government Agriculture, having two spare rooms reserved
therein for the occasional residence of the Governor with a kitchen and stables.
2. A weather boarded Provision Store and Granary.
3. A weather boarded house as a Barrack for the Store-keeper.
4. A weather boarded Barrack for the Principal Overseer of Government
Agriculture.
5. A weather boarded Barrack and Guard House for the Military Detachment
stationed
at Emu Plains.
6. A small log house as a Lock-up place or Prison for the refractory convicts.
7. Two large strong weather boarded Barns with lofts for the wheat and maize
crops.
8. Strong log and weather boarded Huts for the residence and accommodation of
500 male convicts with kitchen gardens, enclosed and attached to the said huts
for
the use of thee convicts.
9. An extensive Kitchen Garden enclosed with a paling fence for the use of the
Superintendant, Overseers, Store keeper and Military Guard.
10. Eight hundred acres of good ground for the purposes of agriculture, cleared
of the
timber, enclosed and subdivided into separate large fields, 200 acres of which
ground
have already been cleared of the stumps, and 500 acres have been this last
season
under crops of wheat, maize, oats, barley, rye, flax and tobacco.
Comment: The rich fine tract of land called "Emu Plains"
consisted of upwards of 2,000
acres of ground and by far the best soil in the Colony for cultivation. It was
situated on
the west side of the Nepean River and at the foot of the Blue Mountains.
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