Sackville Reach Aboriginal Reserve

1889 The Hawkesbury Aboriginal camp becomes Sackville Reach Aboriginal Reserve, acknowledging existing use of area; it becomes the largest designated reserve in Sydney outside of La Perouse.

Related events:

Sacred Aboriginal cemetery

First settlers driven back by intense Aboriginal attack

Aboriginal workers on nearby Tuckerman's farm, Hall's Lilburndale farm and Fiaschi's vineyard

RH Mathews records Darkinung language and culture

Darkinung Family Portrait (Everingham/Barber) Sackville Reach c1890 (Brook; Ford)

Darkinung Family Portrait (Everingham/Barber) Sackville Reach, c1890 (Brook; Ford)

Hawkesbury Aborigines Reserve, Sackville Reach 1889 (Brook)

Aboriginal Reserves, Burial Ground and Lilburndale, Sackville Reach 1889 (Brook)

Sackville Reach Aboriginal Reserve, 1889

Buildings on the Aboriginal reserve at North Sackville in the 1890s by Daphne Kingston

Buildings on Sackville Aboriginal reserve 1890s by Daphne Kingston (Barkley & Nichols, Hawkesbury p4)

Location

Sackville Reach

Australia

33° 29' 51.5688" S, 150° 53' 3.8724" E

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