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Public Buildings and Works
undertaken during the Administration of Governor Lachlan Macquarie [1 JANUARY
1810 TO 30 NOVEMBER 1821]
AT THE HALF WAY HOUSE ON LIVERPOOL ROAD
1. Three weather
boarded Barracks for one Superintendant, one Overseer, and
30 convict labourers, employed there to cut and saw timber for the use of
Government
with a kitchen garden enclosed for their use.
2. Two Paddocks of 50 acres each, cleared of trees and stumps and enclosed for
grazing
the Government working oxen and raising maize for feeding them.
Comment: This Government allotment of ground consisted of 500
acres of good forest
land, and had been retained and reserved for the use of the Crown in
consideration of the excellent building timber, it produced. It was situated on
the Liverpool Road and extended
across to the Parramatta Road about ten miles distant from the town of Sydney.
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