The first was a wooden stockade named Fort Algernourne, followed by other small forts. It consisted of a semi-circular earthwork reinforced with wooden stockade and five bastions. The structure was never meant to be a military stockade or fortress. A day after the camp opened, two prisoners escaped by scaling the 12-foot stockade wall. They row ashore and move into an abandoned, fortified stockade. A commodious stockade was built for the seized officers. Some 1,200 dock workers were corralled in a special stockade in Griffith Park. Australian stamp commemorating the Eureka Stockade. The first buildings completed were dormitories followed by a guard house and stockade. It consisted of several small buildings surrounded by a stockade. Hotham was governor at the time of the Eureka Stockade. A block house stood to the left of the stockade gate. Kohima was subsequently attacked and the stockade looted. Slovik was taken into custody and confined to the division stockade. In 1685, surveyors laid out Wall Street along the lines of the original stockade.