Early Settlers in Caboolture• The first Europeans came in 1842. • 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 1842. • 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.

corn wheat vegetables

cattle sugar 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