History of Liverpool
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Inderduction
Unlike these cities, Liverpool was the first free planned settlement of Australia.On November 7, 1810 Governor Lachlan Macquarie founded Liverpool and named it in honour of the Earl of Liverpool, then Secretary of State for the Colonies
The first people to live in liverpool
Thousands of Aboriginal people lived on the coastal plain around Sydney in 1788. The Cabrogal band of the Dharug-speaking people lived around Liverpool and Cabramatta. Among surrounding Aboriginal people, they were famous as karraji (healers and medicine men).u878
The early years in Liverpool
The early years in Liverpool
Liverpool was founded in 1810 to help feed the struggling colony of New South Wales
Liverpool was the first of many towns founded by Governor Macquarie, who wanted to move the colony’s main food-growing region away from the flood-prone Hawkesbury area. He reserved 60 – 100 acre farms on the rich soil of Airds and Appin for small farmers. The rest of the land was given out in several hundred acre lots to wealthy former soldiers and public servants. With rare exceptions, Macquarie would not grant land to women.
bent's basin
Food was so plentiful there that groups could live on one site from weeks to months at a time. A village with 70 huts was described near Bent’s Basin on the Nepean, although 6-8 huts were more common. Their neighbours were the Curingai, the Dharawl and the Gandangara. They visited the Liverpool area often to join in the big kangaroo hunts and corroborees.