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Hebe Cottage, Riverstone c1900

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Hebe Cottage, Riverstone c1900

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Richard Dawson's Australian Foundry

Dawson's Foundry (the Australian Foundry) at George Street and Sydney Cove was the colony's first important iron foundry and a machining and engineering works that operated for four decades. This leading colonial manufactory played an important role in transferring iron trade and engineering technology from England to the Antipodes. Surviving cast iron artefacts represent the industry of the site, which was both a factory and the owner's residence.

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Hebe Cottage

Single storey verandahed farmhouse in Riverstone that was built by engineer Richard Dawson and includes decorative ironwork from his foundry.

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Schofields

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North-western residential and semi-rural suburb named for convict and local timber getter John Schofield. Its aerodrome was the site of the RAN training base HMAS Nirimba, now a campus of the University of Western Sydney.

Riverstone

North-western residential and rural suburb. Lieutenant-Colonel Maurice Charles O'Connell was granted land by Governor Macquarie in this area and named it 'Riverston' after his birthplace in Ireland.

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