Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Eagle Farm Women's Prison and Factory (also known as the Eagle Farm Agricultural Establishment) operated between 1829 and 1839 on the site now part of the Australia TradeCoast, previously the Brisbane Airport in the Brisbane suburb of Eagle Farm. Women worked in the fields and in the prison, doing needlework, laundry, unpicking ropes and even in road construction. Several timber slab buildings included the farm superintendent's house, a two-room building for male prisoners who did heavy work, the Matron's Quarters, a female factory with four rooms and sundry separate buildings including a one-room store, a one-room school and a one room hospital. The cook house had two rooms, one being a needle room where prisoners worked at sewing. The actual prison where women were locked up at night was a building containing six cells with a tall stockade or pallisade type fence, the outer wall 5.2m high poles, the tops of which were sharpened. When the penal colony was closed in 1839 the site was returned to farming. The superintendent's house was thought to have survived until at least 1890.Land for an aerodrome was acquired by the Commonwealth in 1922 and hangars built in 1925 and 1927. The site ceased operation as an aerodrome in 1931 but was refurbished for aviation in 1942 as an airbase for the US Pacific Military Command. The remnants of Allison engine testing beds survive from this period. After the war in 1949 Eagle Farm became Brisbane's main airport. In 1988 the airport closed again, aviation moving to the present Cribb Island site. The women's prison site then became an open grassed area.The site is listed on the Register of the National Estate and is also included on the Queensland Heritage Register. The site is historically important as one of a small number of convict sites remaining in Queensland with surviving original fabric (even though only as an archaeological deposit)."@en }
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- Eagle_Farm_Womens_Prison_and_Factory_Site abstract "The Eagle Farm Women's Prison and Factory (also known as the Eagle Farm Agricultural Establishment) operated between 1829 and 1839 on the site now part of the Australia TradeCoast, previously the Brisbane Airport in the Brisbane suburb of Eagle Farm. Women worked in the fields and in the prison, doing needlework, laundry, unpicking ropes and even in road construction. Several timber slab buildings included the farm superintendent's house, a two-room building for male prisoners who did heavy work, the Matron's Quarters, a female factory with four rooms and sundry separate buildings including a one-room store, a one-room school and a one room hospital. The cook house had two rooms, one being a needle room where prisoners worked at sewing. The actual prison where women were locked up at night was a building containing six cells with a tall stockade or pallisade type fence, the outer wall 5.2m high poles, the tops of which were sharpened. When the penal colony was closed in 1839 the site was returned to farming. The superintendent's house was thought to have survived until at least 1890.Land for an aerodrome was acquired by the Commonwealth in 1922 and hangars built in 1925 and 1927. The site ceased operation as an aerodrome in 1931 but was refurbished for aviation in 1942 as an airbase for the US Pacific Military Command. The remnants of Allison engine testing beds survive from this period. After the war in 1949 Eagle Farm became Brisbane's main airport. In 1988 the airport closed again, aviation moving to the present Cribb Island site. The women's prison site then became an open grassed area.The site is listed on the Register of the National Estate and is also included on the Queensland Heritage Register. The site is historically important as one of a small number of convict sites remaining in Queensland with surviving original fabric (even though only as an archaeological deposit).".
- Q17003446 abstract "The Eagle Farm Women's Prison and Factory (also known as the Eagle Farm Agricultural Establishment) operated between 1829 and 1839 on the site now part of the Australia TradeCoast, previously the Brisbane Airport in the Brisbane suburb of Eagle Farm. Women worked in the fields and in the prison, doing needlework, laundry, unpicking ropes and even in road construction. Several timber slab buildings included the farm superintendent's house, a two-room building for male prisoners who did heavy work, the Matron's Quarters, a female factory with four rooms and sundry separate buildings including a one-room store, a one-room school and a one room hospital. The cook house had two rooms, one being a needle room where prisoners worked at sewing. The actual prison where women were locked up at night was a building containing six cells with a tall stockade or pallisade type fence, the outer wall 5.2m high poles, the tops of which were sharpened. When the penal colony was closed in 1839 the site was returned to farming. The superintendent's house was thought to have survived until at least 1890.Land for an aerodrome was acquired by the Commonwealth in 1922 and hangars built in 1925 and 1927. The site ceased operation as an aerodrome in 1931 but was refurbished for aviation in 1942 as an airbase for the US Pacific Military Command. The remnants of Allison engine testing beds survive from this period. After the war in 1949 Eagle Farm became Brisbane's main airport. In 1988 the airport closed again, aviation moving to the present Cribb Island site. The women's prison site then became an open grassed area.The site is listed on the Register of the National Estate and is also included on the Queensland Heritage Register. The site is historically important as one of a small number of convict sites remaining in Queensland with surviving original fabric (even though only as an archaeological deposit).".