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Area of Sydney's central business district that surrounds the quays built on reclaimed land from the 1830s.

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East Circular Quay

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The area that is now East Circular Quay was quickly seen as the governor's side of Sydney Cove after colonisation in 1788. The first house built on the point belonged to Bennelong. When the semi-circular quay was constructed from 1837, the eastern side of the bay was used as a quarry. From the 1860s, wool stores and warehouses were built that dominated the landscape until after World War II, when taller buildings were allowed.

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ArabanooAssassination attempt on Prince Alfred 1868Bray, James SamuelBusby's BoreBusesCadman's cottageCahill ExpresswayCamelliaCazneaux, HaroldCelebrating St Patrick's Day in nineteenth-century SydneyCity UndergroundCremorne PointCulture and customsDawes PointDulwich HillEast Circular QuayEconomyEducation Department Art GalleryElectrification of the Sydney Suburban Train NetworkFerriesFirst Government HouseGeneral Post OfficeGlebe Coroner's CourtGoat IslandGoldsbrough Mort & CoGreenwichInternational Eucharistic Congress 1928Irish in Sydney from First Fleet to FederationItaliansKing's DockyardL'Estrange, HenriLawson, LouisaLightfoot, LouiseLindsay, NormanLindt Café Siege 2014Macquarie PlaceMacquarie lighthouseMcKenzie, VioletMilsons PointMoore StepsMoore, CharlesMuseum of Contemporary ArtNew Year's EveNorth TurramurraNorthbridgePlanningPlummer, GeorgePublic lavatoriesQ TheatreReading the roadsSecond Fleet commemoration plaque, The RocksSelfe, NormanShoppingSmallpox epidemic 1881SydneySydney Harbour: A Cultural LandscapeSydney Technical CollegeSydney rock oystersThe Biennale of SydneyThe DomainThe Museum of Contemporary Art AustraliaThe Railways of Sydney: Shaping the City and its CommerceThe RocksThe Soldiers Riot of 1916The Tank StreamThe Workers' Educational Association in the post-war eraThe decorated footpathThe end of transportationTramsTransportWar Memorials to World War II and later conflictsWaterWaterloo Tanning SchoolWyatt, AnnieYarra Bay House