 In 1895 the camp at Frenchmans Bay, La Perouse was gazetted as an Aboriginal Reserve.The people who lived there worked as fishermen, in the Chinese Gardens, at the timber mills and wool washes in the area or made boomerang and other artefacts for sale to tourists who flocked to the area after the construction of the tramway to La Perouse at the turn of the century.Many women and children crafted shell decorations for sale.