Stage Number: MBSH.05.06.17
Group: Western
Local Study Area: Wacol-Richlands-Inala
Epoch: Early 19th Century
Street Address: 96 Lilac Street (St Mary\'s Church), Kev Hooper Park and Hock Davis Park, Inala
Latitude & Longitude: -27.59113889,152.97413889
Time Link: 1823
Map Link: 1891
Image Time Point: 1891
Traditional camp and meeting place in the Inala area. Stone artifacts found here suggest this was a tool-making and camping area in pre-Contact times.In the 1980s, stone artifacts were found along Boss Creek, particularly in Hock Davis Park and Kev Hooper Park. Boss Creek then runs east to Hanley’s Creek and thus into Blunder Creek swamp land in Archerfield Wetlands.This site continues to be an important Aboriginal recreational and meeting place today, seeing increased use for Aboriginal events and meetings since the 1960s, when many Aboriginal families again came to live in this area.
Ray Kerkhove, 2015, Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane (Salisbury: Boolarong), 191; Ralph Fones, (ed) 2001, Them’s our ways in Oxley-Chelmer: Oxley-Chelmer History Group Papers III 1999-2000, 6
QSA. QSA Series 1748 Moreton District, County of Stanley Maps – A1 Series. 1 mile to the inch. Queensland Census Districts. 1 mile to the inch. Government Engraving Office, Brisbane. 620650
