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Public Buildings and Works
undertaken during the Administration of Governor Lachlan Macquarie [1 JANUARY
1810 TO 30 NOVEMBER 1821]
AT PENNANT HILLS
1. Temporary weather
boarded and bark Huts for the residence of one Superintendent,
two Overseers, and 80 labouring convicts, employed at this Station in collecting
and
sawing timber, splitting shingles, and burning charcoal for the use of
Government, each
Hut having its own enclosed kitchen garden attached to it.
2. A neat temporary weather boarded Chapel was attached to this Establishment
where
divine service was occasionally performed by one of the Missionaries.
Comment: The heaviest largest and best timber in the Colony for
house building and
other purposes was found in the forests of "Pennant Hills" [situated in the
present day
Epping area], about 700 acres of it has been reserved for the use of the Crown
exclusively, and a strong gang of wood cutters, sawyers and shingle splitters
have
been stationed there for some years past. This Station was within about four
miles of the Parramatta River, by which the timber was brought down in boats to
Sydney.
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