Commissariat Stores Building

Okay, so turns out that I like to do lots of educational things. I went to the commissariat stores building on Friday. It was built by convicts and finished in 1829. They didn't try convicts in Brisbane back then, they were sentenced in Sydney. Lesser convicts were here. It's the oldest standing building in Brisbane. That and the majority of the windmill. The windmill was used to crush the corn to essentially make the corn mush that their diet consisted of. A prisoner's punishment could consist of having to walk the 'treadmill' that was attached. There wasn't always enough wind to run it. I went on a tour and had the pleasure of having a lovely old man named Malcom. Going on tours in the middle of the week is beneficial because you tend to be the only one and as a result, you get all the good stories. I learned of the murder that happened as the convicts built the wall. There were 20 of them chained together. Long story short, the last guy came around and dragged the others to the first guy and put his pick axe through the other guy's head. Also, there was a ghost sighting of Captain Logan. Seen all the way up the river. The floor is gridded as they did an archeological dig there. When it was originally built, the floor matched the walls. The beams were originally cut by axe by the convicts.