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Public Buildings and Works
undertaken during the Administration of Governor Lachlan Macquarie [1 JANUARY
1810 TO 30 NOVEMBER 1821]
AT LONG BOTTOM
1. Four weather
boarded Barracks for one Superintendant, two Overseers, and 40
convict labourers, employed there to cut and saw timber for the public
buildings,
with an extensive kitchen garden enclosed for the use of the men so employed.
2. Three large paddocks of 50 acres each cleared of the standing and dead timber
and enclosed with fences for grazing the Government working oxen.
Comment: This Government allotment consisting of 700 acres had
been reserved
and retained on account of the good and useful timber it produced for the
Government
buildings. It was situated on the Parramatta Road, extending to the Parramatta
River
and distant about 7 miles from Sydney.
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