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Sydney from the Parramatta Road 1819

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Sydney from the Parramatta Road 1819

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Windmills of Sydney

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Colonial architecture Forestry Mills and windmills Natural Environment Roads

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Glebe Grose Farm Surry Hills Ultimo Victoria Park

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University of Sydney

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Blackwattle Bay Blackwattle Creek Blackwattle Swamp

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West view of Sydney taken from Grose's farm, New South Wales, 1819

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Lycett, Joseph

State Library of New South Wales

Windmills of Sydney

In the late eighteenth century, and well into the nineteenth century, the tallest structures around Sydney Cove were windmills. They left few physical remains, yet their presence left a lasting legacy in early colonial landscape art and the minds and hearts of many contemporaries.

Mills and windmills

Colonial architecture

Roads

Natural Environment

Forestry

Grose Farm

Farm granted to Lieutenant Governor Francis Grose in 1792, which gave its name to the larger area set aside for the University of Sydney in the 1850s.

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Glebe

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Inner-city suburb named for its original status as Anglican church land granted to Richard Johnson, chaplain of the first fleet in 1790. The Glebe Point area became fashionable in the nineteenth century, while the southern part of Glebe became a working class district.

Surry Hills

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Inner-city suburb located immediately to the south east of the central business district. After explosive growth in the second half of the nineteenth century it came to be seen as a slum, then experienced gentrification from the late 1960s.

Ultimo

Western inner-city suburb named for surgeon John Harris's estate, densely populated by the end of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century it became heavily industrialised, as well as a centre for technical education, and is now largely gentrified.

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University of Sydney

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First proposed by William Wentworth in 1848 as an expansion of Sydney College, the university was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act in 1850 and inaugurated in 1852 before moving to Camperdown in 1859. It is the oldest university in Australia.

Victoria Park

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Large park between the University of Sydney and City Road, which contains a lake and a public swimming pool.

Blackwattle Bay

Bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbour, west of Darling Harbour and east of Rozelle Bay.

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Blackwattle Creek

Tidal watercourse that flowed through a valley thick with the wattle that gave the area its name.

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Blackwattle Swamp

Mangrove swamp at the head of the Blackwattle Bay filled partly by tides and Blackwattle creek running from Surry Hills.

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