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Governor Phillip established Australia's first inland settlement, Parramatta, on a site called 'The Crescent' an area of flat alluvial ground contained by a bend in the river in the Burramattagal's traditional hunting grounds. The first Government House in Parramatta stood…

Parramatta's General Hospital for convicts was located on Marsden Street overlooking the Parramatta River from 1789 to 1818. Initially two thatched sheds that were known as the Tent Hospital, these were replaced in 1792 by a Brick Hospital. However, conditions continued…

Grants in Roseville were given to Europeans from the 1820s. Orchards and timber were important industries until the railway spurred subdivision and development from the 1890s. By the 1920s there was a thriving suburb with services, churches and schools.

Inhabited by the Terramerragal people until Europeans arrived, the area that became North Turramurra was first called Irish town. Suburban development was slow, because of limited transport and services, until after World War II.

A soldier and policeman, George Poole served in Balmain in the 1910s and 1920s.

A community theatre in a community hall, Marian Street Theatre has managed to provide a varied theatrical offering in a suburban setting over many decades.

Rich camping grounds for the Kameygal people lined the river where Oatley was later built on the land granted to James Oatley, a convict clockmaker. Fishermen, oyster farmers and railway workers settled in the early subdivision after 1881, but it was not till the 1900s that…

Formed by a dam built in 1855-56, Lake Parramatta submerged much of the evidence of the long habitation of the area by the Burramattagal people. The dam was technically advanced, and the water used for Parramatta's supply, first using water carts and later reticulated.…