Quarantine Station in Manly Sydney
Acknowledgements to http://www.manlyquarantine.com/Historical%20photos.htm for the image Just this week, I heard a supernatural story from a friend about Quarantine Station, in Manly Sydney. The land upon which, the Quarantine Station in Manly was built, was first occupied by the aborigines. After the first British fleets came to Australia, the settlers negotiated with the natives, and took over the land. The arrival of subsequent other fleets, and the prevalence of disease on board the ships, resulted in an area being needed for the temporal housing of the sick. So, the above building was built, and the sick were housed and treated there. Unfortunately medicine was still a work in progress, and several people died in this building. The building was used for 140 years as a quarantine site for settlers, and the last ship that brought in occupants was in 1975. Due to its history the building is now...