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Near Pennant Hills Wharf - Parramatta River - My House 1854

By
Frederick Garling
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a128229 / SSV/25]
(Mitchell Library)

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Garling, Frederick

Customs official and marine artist.

State Library of New South Wales

West Pennant Hills

Built on Dharug land, West Pennant Hills was an early timber-getting district, later covered with orchards and dairy and poultry farms.

Ermington

Traditional country of the Barramattagal people, the land that became Ermington was granted by Governor Phillip to convicts and marines in the 1790s. It remained semi-rural well into the twentieth century, with orchards, poultry farms and nurseries only giving way to suburban development after World War II.

Colonial architecture

Residential building

Rivers and Catchments

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.

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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