Macdonaldtown, New South Wales

Macdonaldtown Sydney, New South Wales
Macdonaldtown railway station entrance
Postcode(s)	2042
Location	4 km (2 mi) south-west of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)	City of Sydney
Localities around Macdonaldtown: Camperdown Golden Grove (Newtown) Golden Grove (Darlington) Newtown Macdonaldtown Eveleigh Newtown Erskineville Eveleigh

Macdonaldtown is an urban place in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 4 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, adjacent to the suburbs of Newtown, Eveleigh and Erskineville. Macdonaldtown is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney and informally part of the region of the Inner West. The locality is around Macdonaldtown railway station, on the Inner West line of the Sydney Trains network.

History[]

The area was originally part of a grant made to Irishman Nicholas Devine, who arrived in 1790 as the first principal superintendent of convicts.^{[citation needed]} Devine built his homestead near the corner of Erskineville Road and George Street. An error about the naming of Macdonaldtown is often repeated in publications^{[citation needed]} - viz. "A Mr Macdonald, who owned a large ironmongery at the corner of George and Market Streets in the city, lived near the present Macdonaldtown station and was a major property owner here."

The source of the name "Macdonaltown" has a very different story, involving a scandal of forged documents consigning Devine's property to a convict.^{[citation needed]} In 1846 the property in the south of Erskineville owned by Stephen Macdonald was subdivided and advertised with the name "Macdonald Town".^{[citation needed]} At that same time, it was a working-class district for blue collars.

Macdonaldtown, the whole suburb, was incorporated as a local government area in 1872 and was renamed as Erskineville in 1893.

References[]

• The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia ISBN 0-207-14495-8

External links[]

• Macdonaldtown Geographical Names Board of New South Wales

Coordinates: 33°53′49″S 151°11′12″E / 33.896886°S 151.186767°E / -33.896886; 151.186767

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