Long Marsh

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The buildings on this site were constructed built as the barracks and support buildings for the construction of a dam in the 1840s using probationary labour, with the intention of providing irrigation for farms in the Midlands, but was abandoned a few years later due to economic and political factors. The site consists of a partially completed dam, an abandoned sandstone quarry and the nearby settlement that housed the workers. The original post on Live Journal was in three parts, the earliers parts providing more background information (and photos of the road in) and photos of the abandoned dam site

Photo 3
Among the trees are the remains of paths, boundary walls and chimneys.

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