Lytton Hill
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Signal receiver centre, Lytton Hill, 2012
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| Location | Via South Street, Lytton, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°24′51″S 153°09′42″E / 27.4141°S 153.1617°ECoordinates: 27°24′51″S 153°09′42″E / 27.4141°S 153.1617°E |
| Design period | 1840s - 1860s (mid-19th century) |
| Built | 1859 - c. 1945 |
| Official name: Lytton Hill, Lytton Redoubt, Reformatory, Signal Hill | |
| Type | state heritage (archaeological, built) |
| Designated | 25 August 2000 |
| Reference no. | 601366 |
| Significant period | 1859-1945 (fabric) c. 1859 -1950s, c. 1980-1990s (historical) |
| Significant components | redoubt, fence/wall - perimeter, store/s / storeroom / storehouse, trees/plantings, road/roadway, tank stand, post & telegraph office, signal station/post, shed/s, animal enclosure/s, culvert - storm water |
 Location of Lytton Hill in Queensland
Location of Lytton Hill in Queensland
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Lytton Hill is a heritage-listed signal station via South Street, Lytton, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1859 to c. 1945. It is also known as Lytton Redoubt, Reformatory, and Signal Hill. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 25 August 2000.
Lytton Hill - also known as Signal Hill, Reformatory Hill, or the Lytton Redoubt - is highly significant in Queensland history. Strategically positioned at the mouth of the Brisbane River, the hill has been used as a customs lookout, signal and telegraph station, observation post and redoubt commanding the Fort Lytton defence complex, and boys' reformatory.
The history of the Lytton district is closely aligned to the establishment during the 1840s and 1850s of the Port of Moreton Bay at Brisbane Town, on the Brisbane River, rather than at Cleveland on the Bay. In 1857 the New South Wales colonial government began to investigate the suitability of establishing a customs station at the south head of the Brisbane River (present-day Lytton). In August 1857, surveyor James Warner completed a preliminary survey of a site for a village at the south head, which was approved in November 1858, and in December 1858 tenders were called for the construction of a Customs Station nearby on the river. In February 1859 Warner officially surveyed sections 1 to 13 of the village of Lytton, as well as sites for a customs landing place and a signal station (possibly Lytton Hill).
Between 1860 and 1863 some Lytton township allotments were alienated, mostly by Brisbane speculators who anticipated the development of wharf facilities at Lytton. Few private buildings were erected there. The Crown and Anchor Hotel at Lytton held a license in 1865-66 - about the time a government wharf adjacent to the Customs Reserve was built in 1866 to tranship railway stores and plant. From 1878 until c. 1905 the Lytton Hotel served local farmers and the annual military presence.
Following separation from New South Wales in December 1859, the Queensland Government maintained Lytton's role as the customs entry to the Port of Moreton Bay. In 1860-61 an electric telegraph line was constructed from Brisbane to the Lytton Customs Station - the first telegraph line in Queensland built specifically for internal administrative use, to communicate shipping intelligence and meteorological observations from Moreton Bay. The Lytton Telegraph Office opened on 1 June 1861, the third to open in Queensland after Brisbane and Ipswich on the inter-colonial line, which had commenced operation in April 1861. In 1864 the electric telegraph was extended from Lytton via Cleveland and undersea cable to Dunwich on Stradbroke Island and north to Cape Moreton on Moreton Island.
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