MARRICKVILLE COUNCIL

'Marrickville' is a Local Government Area (LGA) in the Inner West region of Sydney, Australia. The area is roughly bounded by Parramatta Road to the north, the Princes Highway to the east, the Cooks River to the south, and Old Canterbury Road to the west.
The area is generally working class and also has a share of students, being relatively close to the University of Sydney. In recent decades Marrickville has received waves of immigrants to Australia. According to the council's website in 2005, "the area contains one of the highest percentages of artists, cultural workers and arts industries of any local government area in Australia."

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History

Suburbs in the local government area

External links

History

Based on artefacts found near the Cooks River and Alexandria Canal, it is believed that the area has been occupied for at least 7,000 years. The area was originally occupied by the Cadigal clan of the Darug people who spoke the Eora language. Their name for most of the present day LGA was Bullanaming.
European settlement of the area began very soon after the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. The first land grant was made in 1789, and by 1809 all the land had been granted. In the 1830's, the district consisted of five large estates, including Thomas Chalder's estate named Marrick after his home town in North Yorkshire. At this point, the area was still quite rural in nature.
Following the subdivision of these estates, municipalities were formed in Marrickville (1861), Camperdown (1861), Newtown (1862), St Peters (1871) and Petersham (1872). The area lost its rural character as Sydney grew, and by the 1820's had become an urbanised industrial area.
The population of these municipalities increased greatly in that time, peaking at roughly 113,000 in 1948. It was in this year that the State Government introduced the Local Government (Areas) Act, and Marrickville Municipal Council was enlarged by merging with St Peters and Petersham on 1949-01-01. The Camperdown and Newtown municipalities had already been merged with the City of Sydney, however in 1968 a boundary readjustment added parts of these areas to Marrickville, resulting in the present boundaries.
While migration has always been an important part of Marrickville, this was especially true from the 1950s to the 1970s, as large groups of immigrants arrived from Southern Europe, the Middle East and then Asia. The area is today one of the most culturally diverse in the country.

Suburbs in the local government area

Suburbs and localities serviced by Marrickville Council are:

★ Camperdown

★ Dulwich Hill

★ Enmore

★ Lewisham

★ Marrickville

★ Marrickville South

★ Newtown

★ Petersham

★ St Peters

★ Stanmore

★ Sydenham

★ Tempe

External links

★ Marrickville Council

★ Cadigal/Wangal peoples website

★ Reverse Garbage Centre

★ Youth Resource Centre

★ Interactive Map of Marrickville Local Government Area

★ 2001 Census Information