The Historian · Ava · Sydney
The Rocks
This is where Sydney actually began, on Gadigal ground taken first. Every lane here has a layer under the cobbles.
The colony's first neighbourhood — convict-cut lanes below the bridge, where 1788 Sydney was built and the 1900 plague cleared the slums.
— Ava, The Historian
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