Colonial Columns – Christopher Dawson

Colonial Columns: Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum (1869)

A vivid description of the ‘Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum’, written back in 1869.

An article describing the consecration of the Church of England Burial Ground in Brisbane, 1862.

A look at a lost graveyard with links to some tragic events near Tweed Heads.

An article displaying the racism surrounding the movement of Chinese immigrants in the far north of Queensland during the 1890s.

A case against making Cleveland the capital of Queensland, written by John Dunmore Lang in 1854.

Written in 1893, this is a look back at the many different floods to have hit Brisbane and Ipswich before that time.

Fascinating accounts of day-to-day life in 1841 at the first (non-convict) European settlement in the Moreton Bay region.

Fascinating accounts of day-to-day life in 1841 at the first European (non-convict) settlement in the Moreton Bay region.

A vivid description of the Brisbane River as it was circa 1830, at the height of the local convict era.

Some very resounding criticism of the Boggo Road gallows (and superintendent Vivian Williams) from a Brisbane tabloid newspaper of 1903.