Macquarie Place

Square or place

The open space at the corner of Loftus and Bridge streets marked with an obelisk from which roads in the colony were measured.

Macquarie Place

by Anne-Maree Whitaker, 2008

 

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In the early nineteenth century Macquarie Place was the administrative and business hub of Sydney. Today traces of its long history can be found in the monuments, relics and old trees which still remain.
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