Week 37: Building a Home

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This week  Colonel Light writes in his diary while sitting in his  hut and we hear that his men are building a store-hut nearby using building materials unloaded from the Rapid. He has divided his surveyors into two groups and has sent them to different parts of  South Australia in his quest to find the best site for a capital city. As he sits in his hut swatting flies we wonder what his hut is like and this gives  us an opportunity to look at the homes that were built in South Australia in 1836. How were these early homes built? What were they made from and what factors influenced the types of homes people built?

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