Lytton Quarantine Station
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Lytton Quarantine Station
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| Location | 160 South Street, Lytton, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°24′52″S 153°09′02″E / 27.4144°S 153.1505°ECoordinates: 27°24′52″S 153°09′02″E / 27.4144°S 153.1505°E |
| Design period | 1900 - 1914 (early 20th century) |
| Built | 1913 - c. 1914 |
| Official name: Lytton Quarantine Station (former), Customs Reserve, Fort Lytton National Park, Lytton Quarantine Complex and Animal Detention Centre | |
| Type | state heritage (built, archaeological) |
| Designated | 22 September 2000 |
| Reference no. | 601347 |
| Significant period | 1913-1914 (fabric) 1859, 1889, 1914-1982, 1919 (historical) |
| Significant components | shed/s, sewage farm/treatment site, machinery/plant/equipment - health/care services, jetty/pier, residential accommodation - staff housing, bathroom/bathhouse, objects (movable) - law/order, immigration, customs, quarantine, tramway, workshop, trees/plantings, yard, drainage, reception area/house, residential accommodation - doctor's house/quarters, chimney/chimney stack, disinfecting room, laundry / wash house, boiler room/boiler house, slab/s - concrete |
 Location of Lytton Quarantine Station in Queensland
Location of Lytton Quarantine Station in Queensland
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Lytton Quarantine Station is a heritage-listed former quarantine station at 160 South Street, Lytton, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1913 to c. 1914. It is also known as Customs Reserve and Lytton Quarantine Complex and Animal Detention Centre. It is included within the Fort Lytton National Park. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 22 September 2000.
The Lytton Quarantine Station was established in 1913-1914, to accommodate newly arrived immigrants and persons considered to be at risk of causing infection to the general population.. Situated at an isolated location at the mouth of the Brisbane River, the place illustrates early 20th century attitudes to quarantine practices and the provision of quarantine facilities, and is important as part of a continuum of sites in and adjacent to Moreton Bay, used for quarantine purposes from 1844.
There were no human quarantine facilities at Moreton Bay during the penal era 1824-42, as all immigration came via Sydney. Following the opening of the district to free settlement in February 1842, a quarantine station was formed in 1844 at Dunwich, on Stradbroke Island, at the site of a former goods transfer depot established by convicts in the late 1820s. From 1864, Dunwich served as both quarantine station and benevolent asylum. The quarantine station was relocated briefly to St Helena Island in Moreton Bay in 1866-67, along with the newly erected gaol there, but was soon returned to Dunwich. From 1874 to 1915 Peel Island in Moreton Bay served as Brisbane's human quarantine station.
The Lytton site, just south of Fort Lytton at the mouth of the Brisbane River, had a variety of uses prior to the establishment of the Quarantine Station in the early 20th century, occupying a former customs reserve (established 1858-59), sections of the early township of Lytton (surveyed in 1859), and an animal quarantine facility (established 1889).
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