Early Settlers in Caboolture The first Europeans came in Caboolture means the place of many carpet snakes. Caboolture had lots of carpet snakes so the Aboriginal people called it this.

The Archer brothers were the first European settlers in Caboolture. They moved from New South Wales in The Archer brothers worked on a farm station called ‘Durundur’. The Archer brothers and the people that worked for them grew crops, such as potatoes, pumpkins and cabbages. Durundur station

Caboolture was a very tiny town. It was made to supply and sell groceries and tools to other settlers in Caboolture. It also provided items to gold miners going to Gympie.

People made money by farming wood. Wood from the red cedar trees gave people money when they sold it. A lot of the wood was sold in Brisbane. The settlers used the wood to make houses, barns and fence posts.

On the land farmers grew: -sugar cane -wheat -corn -vegetables The farmers tried sheep farming but it didn’t work, so they farmed cows instead. cornwheat vegetables cattlesugar cane

When years past, Caboolture became famous for farming many crops such as: strawberries pineapple bananas cotton sugar cane strawberries bananas pineapples sugar cane

Where did early settlers live? Early settlers lived in slab huts. A slab hut is a shed made from cuts of wood.

Other settlers lived in homes and bush huts. The homes in the pictures are made from wattle tree wood and daub. Daub is like a glue and helps stick the wattle together.

What did the early settlers like to eat and drink? meat pie barbeque pavlova picnic pasties coffee kangaroo meat pumpkin emu meat tea

What chores would I have had to do? picking crops hunting for meat planting crops men and boys collecting water women and girls starting a fire to cook washing cleaning the house

What would my school be like? Use chalk board and chalk for writing. Drink chocolate, strawberry or vanilla milk out of glass bottles. Be punished with the cane. School building