Tasmanian Aboriginal people of the Mouheneenner[REF] band lived by the River Derwent in the Cornelian Bay area for 8000 years - their shell middens can still be seen in the dark sands near the top of the low cliffs of Cornelian Point.
Soon after Sullivans Cove was settled in 1804, the Cornelian Bay site became the Government Farm, supplying fresh vegetables and other produce for the first residents of Hobart Town.