The Dawes Point Battery remains is a heritage-listed former artillery fortification and now visitor attraction located adjacent to the southern pylon...
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astronomer with the First Fleet. The point was renamed in honour of Dawes. Dawes Point is one of the places around Sydney Harbour that has been officially...
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House 121–127 Harrington Street: Bushells Building Hickson Road: Dawes Point Battery remains 1–5 Hickson Road: ASN Co building 4–6 Kendall Lane: Raphael...
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Port Jackson (redirect from Glebe Point)
container terminals there in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Former: Dawes Point Battery (1791) Fort Macquarie (1798) Middle Head Fortifications (1801) Fort...
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Gibb Street Mob. They conducted such crimes as theft, murder, assault and battery against police and pedestrians in The Rocks area. Female members of the...
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buildings such as Cadman's Cottage, Sydney Observatory, and the Dawes Point Battery, which was the first fortified position in New South Wales. Sydney...
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buildings in the Gothic model. Of these, Forts Philip and Macquarie, Dawes Point Battery and the Parramatta Road Toll-gate have all been demolished. Only...
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railings Other significant historical features Cumberland Street Archaeological Site Dawes Point Battery Rocks Push Sydney Cove West Archaeological Precinct...
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a proposed suspension bridge across Sydney Harbour from Dawes Point Battery to Milson's Point. On 1 May 1889 the Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge was opened;...
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attacks from non-British ships or convict uprisings. In 1791 the Dawes Point Battery was meant to be the first line of defence against an attack by the...
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three-storey pavilion with strip windows. North of it, a large downward-pointing arrow in the facade at ground level directs visitors to a poem carved in...
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Darling Harbour was via a circuitous route along lower George Street, to Dawes Point and into Windmill Street. For pedestrians, there was no other way except...
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The Millers Point & Dawes Point Village Precinct is a heritage-listed retail shops that support harbour functions, office and urban residences located...
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occupied by the Naval Officer, on the southwest by a road leading to Dawes Point Battery, and on the east by Sydney Cove, "in consequence of his having erected...
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family. The muster of 1806 shows him working, still a prisoner, at Dawes Point Battery in Sydney. Since by 1810, perhaps as early as 1806, Dempsey was overseer...
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first observatory in the Australian colonies had been erected on Dawes Point by William Dawes in 1788. J. M. Forde records John Speerin was the publican in...
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railings Other significant historical features Cumberland Street Archaeological Site Dawes Point Battery Rocks Push Sydney Cove West Archaeological Precinct...
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William Dawes as early as 1788 and "Dawes Battery" was established next to it. By 1812 there was a wind-powered post mill behind the battery, owned by...
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29-31 George St. Higginbotham, Kass & Walker (1991). The Rocks and Millers Point Archaeological Management Plan. Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority (SCRA)...
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March 1788 Dawes was employed in the settlement as an engineer and surveyor, and built the first Sydney Observatory on what is now Dawes Point, under the...
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Forces. He was a keen horseman and rode to and from his residence at Dawes Point Battery every day. An inkwell made from the hoof of the horse Finn used in...
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railings Other significant historical features Cumberland Street Archaeological Site Dawes Point Battery Rocks Push Sydney Cove West Archaeological Precinct...
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the extreme topography of the site bisecting the ridge between Millers Point and The Rocks, the cellars for the new building were cut to the level of...
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railings Other significant historical features Cumberland Street Archaeological Site Dawes Point Battery Rocks Push Sydney Cove West Archaeological Precinct...
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railings Other significant historical features Cumberland Street Archaeological Site Dawes Point Battery Rocks Push Sydney Cove West Archaeological Precinct...
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railings Other significant historical features Cumberland Street Archaeological Site Dawes Point Battery Rocks Push Sydney Cove West Archaeological Precinct...
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Johnson, SCA. Higginbotham, Kass & Walker (1991). The Rocks and Millers Point Archaeological Management Plan. Sydney Cove Authority(SCA) (1998). SCA Register...
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ISBN 978-1-876991-28-9. Higginbotham, Kass & Walker (1991). The Rocks and Millers Point Archaeological Management Plan. Historic Houses Trust (2004). "Museums"...
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East Point Batteries, located in Nahant, Massachusetts, were part of the Harbor Defenses of Boston during World War II. Three separate gun batteries were...
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associated with Sydney's development and commercial life. Cadmans was a focal point of the harbour upon which the city relied and indicates the extent to which...
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