Baroona Heights-Milton Heights Aboriginal Camp

Stage Number: MBNH.07.02.05

Group: Western

Local Study Area: Toowong-St Lucia-Indooroopilly

Epoch: Early 19th Century

Street Address: Reading Street/ Wilden Street vicinity near Government House, Rainworth

Latitude & Longitude: -27.46225,152.99136111

Time Link: 1823

Map Link: 1859

Image Time Point: 1859

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Aboriginal Camping ground into the late 1800s. From this Camp, Aboriginal attended blanket-giving days of the Queen’s Birthday, apparently at the Governor’s Palace just opposite.

Citations

Ray Kerkhove, 2015, Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane (Salisbury: Boolarong), 192.

Image Citations

Map References

QSA. QSA Series 1748 Moreton District, County of Stanley Maps – A1 Series. 10 chains to the inch. Portions LXIV and LXV in the Parish of Indooroopilly, County of Stanley. 10 chains to the inch. Survey Office, Brisbane. 620522