The Historian · Ava · Sydney
Old Government House, Parramatta
The colony was really run from up-river, on farmland. This house, not the town, is where the early governors did their thinking.
Australia's oldest surviving public building (1799), the country residence of ten early governors, out on the Parramatta River.
— Ava, The Historian
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