Musgrave Park, Brisbane

Musgrave Park is a park in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The park is bordered by Edmonstone, Russell, and Cordelia Streets, and Brisbane State High School, and has an area of 63,225 m2. The park is of cultural significance to indigenous Australians.HistoryMusgrave Park is a remnant of the former Kurilpa Aboriginal camping ground that stretched from "Highgate Hill and on the slanting slopes of Cumboomeya " and additionally "sometimes they made a camp in the little scrub then situated on the river bank near the recent entrance to the Dry Dock". From here and Woolloongabba, Aborigines in the 1840s and 1850s would go into South Brisbane to work chopping wood, carrying water, and selling fish. The South Brisbane Recreation Reserve was created in 1856. In 1867, it was proposed to build a public grammar school adjacent to the reserve. In 1884, it was renamed Musgrave Park after the then Governor of Queensland, Sir Anthony Musgrave.An effort to collect documents related to the aboriginal historical links to the park was spearheaded by Bob Weatherall in 1983. In 1985, the Musgrave Park Report was released, identifying indigenous links to the area. In 1998, the Brisbane City Council allocated part of the park for the establishment of an indigenous cultural centre. The council has described the park as a place for holding feasts, ceremonies and dispute resolution.