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Title: Early Tasmania Author: James Backhouse Walker * A Project Gutenberg Australia eBook * eBook No.: leondumoulin.nl Language: English Date first posted: Van Diemen's Land:
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Replacing the west coast workhouse, Port Arthur housed hardened criminals and juvenile convicts until A precursor to America's Alcatraz Island, it's situated at the southern tip of Tasmania on a peninsula surrounded by what were rumoured to be shark-infested waters. Few attempted escape and even fewer succeeded. A fellow named George 'Billy' Hunt disguised himself using a kangaroo hide and tried to make a hop for freedom, but the half-starved guards on duty decided to shoot him for food. Hunt threw off his 'roo' disguise and surrendered, receiving lashes for his troubles.
Today, the Port Arthur Historic Site harbours a trove of these stories and offers regular tours of the grounds and buildings. You can even look up your own convict roots in the study centre. Many more of Tasmania's penal sites have been maintained as museums and educational centres, offering fascinating and thought provoking reminders of our punishing past.
The Cascades Female Factory in South Hobart is one of the few female convict facilities still standing, with historical theatre shows running daily. Darlington Probation Station, situated within Maria Island National Park on Tasmania's East Coast, is surrounded by bushland that has remained unchanged since the convict era.
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It's difficult to imagine such a scenic location being the site of so much hardship — and often in penance for crimes as petty as stealing a loaf of bread. It wasn't until the advent of the Probation System in the early s — which allowed former prisoners to work for wages in surrounding districts — that our criminal ancestors were able to begin to enjoy their new home at end of the world.
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Captain James Cook also sighted the island in , and numerous other European seafarers made landfalls, adding a colourful array to the names of topographical features. The first settlement was by the British at Risdon Cove on the eastern bank of the Derwent estuary in , by a small party sent from Sydney, under Lt. John Bowen. An alternative settlement was established by Capt. The settlement at Risdon was later abandoned. The early settlers were mostly convicts and their military guards, with the task of developing agriculture and other industries.
Numerous other convict settlements were made in Van Diemens Land, including secondary prisons, such as the particularly harsh penal colonies at Port Arthur in the south-east and Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast.
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The Aboriginal resistance to this invasion was so strong, that troops were deployed across much of Tasmania to drive the Aboriginal people into captivity on nearby islands. In , Tasmanian roads were first macadamised and carthorses began to replace bullocks. In the same year, the first substantial jail was completed on the corner of Macquarie Street and Murray Street and merino sheep arrived from John Macarthur 's stud in New South Wales.
The inauguration of the Supreme Court occurred in , as did the opening of Cascade Brewery , Australia's longest continuously operating Brewery. Cannibal convict Alexander Pearce was hanged after escaping twice from Macquarie Harbour who survived by eating his companions and convict Matthew Brady begins his bushranging career after escaping from Macquarie Harbour.
Also in that year, the Richmond Bridge , Australia's oldest existing bridge, was opened and a party of soldiers and convicts establishes Maria Island penal settlement. Hobart experienced a disease epidemic which was blamed on rivulet pollution. A courthouse was built on the corner of Macquarie Street and Murray Street and street lighting with oil lamps was introduced.
A proclamation made in by Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur excluded Aborigines from settled areas and was the year of the Cape Grim massacre. In , martial law was also declared against Aborigines in settled areas after Van Diemen's Land Company shepherds killed 30 Aborigines at Cape Grim and regular mail services with Sydney began. That year also saw widespread floods.
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