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Commemorative plaque that was installed in 1985 on the site of Mort's Wool store as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Far south-western residential and commercial suburb between Camden and Campbelltown. Formerly a small village, it started to grow under the Sydney Region Outline Plan (1968).

Sydney-born tanner and politician who advocated an end to transportation and the establishment of responsible government. He was elected Sydney's second Mayor in 1843.

North-eastern residential suburb. In the nineteenth century it was thickly wooded, and James Ffrench [sic] shipped timber from here down the harbour to Sydney.

American-born pharmaceuticals salesman who emigrated to Sydney and began commercially producing ice-cream, the first person in Australia to do so, founding the Peters brand.

The YMCA is a worldwide organisation which provides community development and spiritual support. Formed in England in the 1840s, it started in Sydney in 1853.

Surveyor who undertook alignment surveys of streets across Sydney in the late nineteenth cenutry. He was also a pastoralist, artist and stained glass artist.

Musician and army chaplain who was chief minister of Sydney's Great Synagogue for nearly thirty years, and active in all facets of Jewish life.

Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, Macquarie shaped Sydney's built environment, social structure, financial development and public morals.

Cable punt that transports vehicles across the Parramatta River between Mortlake and Putney. It is the only remaining vehicular cable ferry in Sydney Harbour.

Council established by legislation to acquire and manage land, and to protect the cultural heritage interests of Aboriginal people in the Sydney metropolitan area.

Movie set in a futuristic post-modern fantasy land that combines the Sydney skyline with global icons such as Red Square and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Hotel in Milsons Point where North Sydney Rowing Club was established on 18 July 1879, and later frequented and written about by Henry Lawson.

Sydney's pre-industrial culture was comprehensive and public, and most European inhabitants were players, performers or spectators. After 1850, distinct but overlapping cultures emerged, imported and adapted from Europe and America. New forms of cultural transmission after…

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of the Redfern Mortuary Terminal between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project. The text on the plaque read 'A funeral train service ran from Sydney to the Necropolis (Rookwood Cemetery) from…

Two musicians by the name of Ernesto Spagnoletti, father and son, were prominent in the musical life of Sydney in the 1850s.

Commemorative plaque that was installed on the site of Wyoming between 1984 and 1988 as part of the Sydney Green Plaques Bicentennial project.

Boundary stone approximately 152 centimetres high which was erected on the eastern bank of Black Wattle Creek to delineate the boundary of Sydney Town.

Railway station on Sydney's north shore. The station building erected in 1916 was relocated from the 1860s Glenbrook railway station in the Blue Mountains.

House originally constructed by Reuben Uther but renamed and extended by Thomas Rose in the 1820s.  Gilead is now being developed as a Sydney suburb.