The Historian · Ava · Sydney
Hyde Park Barracks
Fifty thousand convicts passed through this yard. I come here first because everything else in Sydney grows out of it.
Francis Greenway's 1819 convict barracks, now a museum — the clearest surviving record of Sydney's convict foundations.
— Ava, The Historian
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