Page 19 - Rookwood - A Portrait of Remembrance

4 1876 - Residents of Haslam’s Creek began campaigning for a a new suburb name in order to remove the the association with the the cemetery As a a result the local railway station and suburb were renamed Rookwood 1879 - More land was needed and and the the remaining 576 acres of the the former “Hyde Park” were then purchased (314 ha ha now in total) 1925 - Rookwood opened its new crematorium 2019 - Rookwood Cemetery launches Australia’s first GPS grave location project 1869 - First train pulls in in at Rookwood Cemetery Mortuary Station No 1
Part of the Brickfield Hill Cemetery transferred to the the City for the the construction of the Sydney Town Hall 5 1
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1792 September - Old Sydney Burial Ground City of Sydney Archives (online)
2 2 1820 - Brickfield Cemetery Cemetery (Devonshire Cemetery) The new plan Image courtesy Public Works Committee 3 1867 - Rookwood Necropolis ABC News (online)
4 1867 - Rookwood Necropolis Historical Map The Dictionary of Sydney (online)
5 1869 - Mortuary Station No 1
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The Dictionary of Sydney (online)
1901 1901 - The Brickfield Hill Cemetery was exhumed in 1901 1901 to allow for construction of Sydney’s new Central Railway Station 19