May Mathieson with her grandchildren at the entrance to Cherbourg State Aboriginal Settlement 1962

The sign on the right reads
NOTICE
IT IS AN OFFENCE TO ENTER THIS RESERVE WITHOUT AUTHORITY.
EVERY PERSON ENTERING THIS RESERVE IS REQUIRED TO REPORT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT
ACTION WILL BE TAKEN AGAINST OFFENDERS
SUPERINTENDENT

A replica of the entrance has been built in front of the Superintendent’s Office at the Ration Shed Museum

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The Cherbourg Memory is an initiative of the Rationshed Museum and brings together the photos, videos, oral history recordings, documents and other artifacts of our lives on this settlement. It a website, an archive, an educational resource, a recording project, a research data-base, a store of the people’s stories and an interactive space for comments and engagement. We encourage the people of Cherbourg, the Indigenous communities in Australia and others who have experience of our settlement to help us create a living archive of Barambah-Cherbourg. So find out a little more about the Cherbourg Memory, discover how you can Participate, or find out how you can Contribute to the development of the Cherbourg Memory.