Mrs Macquarie's Chair
Mrs Macquarie's Chair
Lady Macquarie's Chair | |
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |
Part of | The Domain |
Offshore water bodies | Port Jackson |
Geology | Sydney sandstone |
Mrs Macquarie's Chair (also known as Lady Macquarie's Chair
Description
Mrs Macquarie was the wife of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. Folklore has it that she used to sit on the rock and watch for ships from Great Britain sailing into the harbour. She was known to visit the area and sit enjoying the panoramic views of the harbour.
Above the chair is a stone inscription referring to Mrs Macquarie's Road. That road was built between 1813 and 1818, and ran from the original Government House (now the Museum of Sydney) to Mrs Macquarie's Point.[6] It was built on the instruction of Governor Macquarie for the benefit of his wife.[7] There is no remaining evidence of the original road, other than a culvert over which the road ran—the Macquarie Culvert.[6]
The stone inscription reads as follows.
- Be it thus Recorded that the Road
- Round the inside of the Government Domain Called
- Mrs. Macquarie's road
- So named by the Governor on account of her having Originally
- Planned it Measuring 3 Miles, and 377 Yards
- Was finally Completed on the 13th Day ofJune 1816
The peninsula sits between the
See also
References
- ^ "Mrs Macquarie's Chair". Travel Promote. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
- ^ Irish, Paul; Goward, Tamika. "Yurong Cave and Yurong Midden". Barani: Sydney's Aboriginal History. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
- ^ Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia. (1898), Science of man and journal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia, G. Watson, retrieved 3 July 2019
- ^ "Fountains, sculptures and memorials in the Royal Botanic Garden and the Domain". The Royal Botanic Garden & Domain Trust. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
- ^ "Domain Walk". The Royal Botanic Garden & Domain Trust. Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
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- ^ Our Convict Heritage (Sign near the culvert in the Royal Botanic Gardens). 1 December 2013.