Stage Number: MBNH.09.02.05
Group: Old Town & River
Local Study Area: Petrie Terrace-Spring Hill-Bowen Hills
Epoch: Early 19th Century
Street Address: Old Windmill, Wickham Terrace
Latitude & Longitude: -27.46569444,153.02311111
Time Link: 1841
Map Link: 1865
Image Time Point: 1865
On June 1841, this became the site of the first public hanging in Brisbane – of Mullan and Ningavil for the murder of the explorer Stapleton. Between 1846 and 1847, the warrior Yilbung extracted a monthly flour rent from this Windmill for his people as payment for use of the land, until apprehended at the Windmill by soldiers. In 1855, Aboriginal groups gathered by the Windmill to protest the hanging of Dundalli, conducting one of the largest Aboriginal protests of that time.
Ray Kerkhove, 2015, Aboriginal Campsites of Greater Brisbane (Salisbury: Boolarong), 106-7.
QSA. QSA Series ID 2043 City of Brisbane and Suburbs Maps – A1A Series. 1 chain to the inch. Plan of subdivision of section 30 City of Brisbane. 1 chain to an inch. Surveyor General’s Office, Brisbane.(quarter-size). 634488
