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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Rookwood 1891-...

Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney - Rookwood 1891-1894

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

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Homebush Homebush Bay Rookwood Rookwood Cemetery

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Atlas of the Suburbs of Sydney

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Higinbotham & Robinson

City of Sydney Archives

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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Homebush

Inner western residential and commercial suburb serviced by the metropolitan railway network, and crossed by the M4 motorway and Parramatta Road. Its name comes from the estate of D'Arcy Wentworth.

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Homebush Bay

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Residential and commercial suburb on the Parramatta River which included Sydney Olympic Park. The name was discontinued in 2009 when it was split into Wentworth Point and Sydney Olympic Park.

Rookwood

Western suburb encompassing Rookwood Cemetery located south and east of Lidcombe.

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Rookwood Cemetery

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Large cemetery established on the railway line between Sydney and Parramatta, which became Sydney's biggest necropolis when it opened in 1868.

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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