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Public Buildings and Works
undertaken during the Administration of Governor Lachlan Macquarie [1 JANUARY
1810 TO 30 NOVEMBER 1821]
AT HOBART TOWN, VAN DIEMAN'S LAND
1. The old
Government House enlarged and much improved with some new additional
rooms and all the necessary out offices, having a garden and shrubbery added
thereto,
and the whole premises enclosed with a neat paling fence.
2. A range of new brick built Barracks situate on a hill at the southern
extremity of the
town, with accommodation for 150 soldiers and Barracks for one Captain and three
Subalterns and one Assistant Surgeon, with all the necessary out offices for
officers
and men, there being kitchen gardens for the use of both, the whole of these
premises
being enclosed with a stockade.
3. A brick-built Military Hospital with a verandah for the accommodation of 30
patients within the above Stockade.
4. A brick-built Guard House within the above Stockade.
5. A brick-built main Guard House in the centre of the town near the Government
House.
6. A large handsome and commodious new brick-built Church with a gallery all
round
inside and a spire, being situated in nearly the centre of the town.
7. The site for a brick-built Parsonage House and offices on an allotment of
ground
contiguous to the Church marked out and the building thereof now in progress.
8. The old Burial Ground considerably enlarged and surrounded with a new strong
fence.
9. The old Provision Store and Granary repaired, enlarged and considerably
improved
with a new Office for the Commissariat Officer and his clerks added thereto.
10. A private house contiguous to the Old Provision Store, purchased by
Government
and converted into a second Granary.
11. A private house in nearly the centre of the town, purchased for the use of
Government and converted into a temporary Court House and office for the Deputy
Judge Advocate.
12. A large commodious brick built Gaol with all the necessary wards, cells and
out
offices, including separate apartments for debtors, with two Courts separated
for
debtors and felons, with apartments for the Jailor and his family, the whole
premises
surrounded with a high brick wall.
13. A large new commodious brick built Colonial Hospital, two stories high, in
an
elevated airy part of the town near a stream of water, with separate wards for
women,
and capable of accommodating 100 patients, having all the necessary out offices,
the whole of these premises enclosed with a high brick wall.
14. A large brick built Barrack, two stories high, with the necessary out
offices and
surrounded with a high brick wall for the residence and accommodation of 300
male convicts.
15. The site of a brick built Barrack, two stories high, with the necessary
offices for
the residence and accommodation of 100 female convicts marked out and now in
progress, it being intended to erect a high brick wall round the said building.
16. An extensive piece of ground enclosed with a strong stockade for a new
Lumber
Yard, marked out close to the water, the old Lumber Yard being very
inconveniently
situated and badly constructed.
17. An eligible piece of ground close to the water, enclosed with a strong
stockade,
marked out for a Dock Yard.
18. A large commodious stone built Wharf or Quay, for loading and unloading
ships
and vessels in Sullivan Cove.
19. A brick built House for the Wharfinger and Watchman adjoining the said new
Wharf.
20. A Water Mill constructed on the stream of water, running through the centre
of the town, for grinding corn for the use of Government with a house and garden
for the Miller, attached thereto and enclosed with a paling.
21. A private house, purchased or Government and converted into a Barrack for
the Colonial Surgeon and two Assistant Surgeons.
22. An extensive Government Garden and Orchard of 4 acres of ground with a
Gardener's House at the southern extremity of the town, enclosed with a
Stockade.
23. A Signal Post, Guard House, and Telegraph commanding a full view of the sea
and Derwent River erected on a height called "Mount Nelson", distant about three
miles from Hobart Town.
24. A Battery, called "Fort Mulgrave" mounting 9 guns, with a Guard House
constructed
on a point of land, forming the south side of "Sullivan Cove" and distant about
half a mile
from town.
25. The streets of Hobart Town (as laid out by Governor Mac¬quarie in 1811)
greatly
improved with footpaths on both sides thereof and bridges constructed over the
River
running through the centre of the town.
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