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Public meeting at Macquarie Place during the election 1857

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Walter G Mason
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Mason, Walter G

National Library of Australia

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Voting and Elections

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Macquarie Place

The open space at the corner of Loftus and Bridge streets marked with an obelisk from which roads in the colony were measured. Originally the area was swampy mangrove land on the banks of the Tank Stream it has been a public meeting place since the 1790s.

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Doric fountain Macquarie Place

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Sandstone Doric fountain designed by Francis Greenway and Mrs Macquarie. It was built in 1819 by stonemason, Edward Cureton and demolished c1883 to make way for statue of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort.