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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Dundas 1891-1894

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Dundas 1891-1894

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney Rydalmere

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Dundas Ermington Field of Mars parish Pennant Hills Rydalmere

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Parramatta River

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The Vineyard

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Rydalmere

Originally Burramattagal country, the area that became Rydalmere was granted to Philip Schaeffer, who planted vines, and the land was later acquired by Hannibal Macarthur who built a grand house, later a Catholic girls' school. The area was named Rydalmere in 1886 when it was subdivided, but remained semi-rural, with orchards and poultry farms until industry moved in from the 1940s.

Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Published by commercial map makers Higinbotham, Robinson and Harrison in the late nineteenth century, the maps of the Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney provide a portrait of the city's municipalities during a period of rapid growth and suburbanisation.

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Dundas

Western residential suburb. Once the site of orchards, it was named by the Rev. Samuel Marsden for Henry Dundas, British Home Secretary.

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

Series of late-nineteenth-century commercial maps of municipalities created by Sydney map publishers Higinbotham, Robinson and Harrison.

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Ermington

Western residential suburb on the northern banks of the Parramatta River. It was largely rural until after the Second World War when the New South Wales Housing Commission built estates there.

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Rydalmere

North-western industrial and residential suburb on the northern banks of the Parramatta River, where merino sheep were first successfully bred in Australia in the early 19th century. In 1886 the orchardist Thomas O'Neill subdivided it and named it after his home town of Rydal in the English Lake District.

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Pennant Hills

Suburb built on Dharug land north-west of central Sydney which was first used by Europeans for timber-getting, and later for farms and orchards. The suburb grew steadily after the arrival of the railway line in 1887.

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Parramatta River

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Major tributary of Sydney Harbour, which flows east from Blacktown Creek to meet Port Jackson between Greenwich and Birchgrove. The river is tidal to Charles Street Weir at Parramatta, 30 kilometres from Sydney Heads.

The Vineyard

House and farm on the Parramatta River established by Philip Schaeffer on his land grant in 1792. After several private owners it was purchased for the Catholic church and converted to a convent school for young girls in 1851. When the school declined it housed a closed Benedictine community until the area was reclaimed for industry in 1957.

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Ermington-Rydalmere Council

Council formed in 1891 when the area seceded from Dundas Municipality, which administered the area until it was amalgamated with Parramatta Council in 1948.

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Field of Mars parish

One of the 57 parishes of the County of Cumberland, named for the area named 'The Field of Mars' by Governor Phillip in 1788 when he made land grants to members of the military forces.

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