Community Place
Goat Island Guard House
Government Civic Place
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Type
Government Civic Place
Established
1836 (journal caption)
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Description & Observations
Goat Island’s guardhouse formed part of the government establishment built around a powder magazine in the 1830s. Peter Reynolds describes convicts quarrying and levelling the western side of the island and constructing a wharf and magazine works.
The journal photograph identifies the guardhouse with the date 1836. Its history belongs to the penal and maritime landscape facing Balmain, rather than to a residential street. The record keeps the island’s location explicit and does not imply that it lies within Balmain’s suburb boundary.
Acknowledgements
- Peter Reynolds, “Goat and Cockatoo: Two Islands off Balmain”, Leichhardt Historical Journal 9, pp. 21–22. Read journal
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