Chinatown

Sydney's first Chinatown was in lower George St, The Rocks, where Chinese businessmen settled in the 1850s, providing services to Chinese goldseekers on their journey to the goldfields. By the 1870s, the Chinese part of the city had moved to Haymarket where Chinese market gardeners came to sell their produce, staying overnight in Chinese lodgings in Surry Hills. Early twentieth century slum clearance, and the movement of the markets towards Darling Harbour, moved Chinatown again, to Dixon Street.
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