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Brooklyn boat harbour 2006

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Boating Bridges Parks Rivers and Catchments

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Brooklyn Dangar Island

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Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn was settled by the 1830s though it remained remote until the railway bridge was built in 1885-89. In the twentieth century, Brooklyn was a fishing and tourist town.

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Brooklyn

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Far northern suburb on the Hawkesbury River. The Geographical Names Board of New South Wales has accepted that Brooklyn was so named because the Union Bridge Company of New York, built both the New York Brooklyn Bridge and the first railway bridge across the Hawkesbury River. However the bridge in New York was built by a different company, the 'New York Bridge Company' and the area was called Brooklyn by at least 1883 when the land was subdivided and sold, well in advance of the construction of the planned bridge. Many historians believe it more likely that the area was named Brooklyn after the borough in New York because of its proximity to Long Island in the Hawkesbury River.

Hawkesbury River (Dyarubbin)

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River that runs for 120 kilometres from the confluence of the Nepean and Grose rivers west of Sydney to Broken Bay north of Sydney. The Darug and Darkinjung people who lived along the river called it Dyarubbin.

Hawkesbury River railway bridge

Railway bridge across the Hawkesbury River near Brooklyn. The original bridge opened in 1889 and was replaced in 1946.

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Dangar Island

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Island in the Hawkesbury River north of Sydney. It was first subdivided in 1921.