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Johnston Street

The Gadigal lived on the Southern side of the Sydney Harbour in a landscape of Iron Bark and Turpentine Forest...Aboriginal Australia

Johnston Street is named after George Johnston, who named his 1793 land grant Annandale after his home in Scotland. More at Anecdotal History of Annandale: 1788-1876 First Fleet, Forestry & Farming (The Environs of Sydney [cartographic material] / P.L.Bemi, July 1835 (SLNSW M2 811.182/1835/2)).

In 1808, Johnston lead "his rum corps" in a coup nick named the "Rum Rebellion" against his neighbour Governor William Bligh and administered the colony of NSW for six months.

Sale of allotments including a stone quarry, toll bar, watch house, brick kilns to be sold by auction 21st April 1841 by order of Charles Hallett and Felix Slade, Esqrs., Trustees to the Estate of the late Rear-Admiral William Bligh..http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/11819751

In 1854 William Stanley Jevons sailed for Sydney to take up the role of Assayer at the mint. While in Sydney he lived on Church Hill and afterwards at Annandale Cottage, Petersham on the Parramatta Road. The cottage was one of three buildings on the northern side of Parramatta Road in what is now the suburb of Annandale. Jevons described two routes for his walk to the Mint. One was along the dusty Parramatta Road and the other "through the wood at our back door"..more at Anecdotal History of Annandale 1823-1876

Annandale in the Parish of Petersham, Sydney. The property of Robert Johnston Esq. R.N: SLNSW Mitchell Map Collection Z/M3 811.1823/1843/4 (viewed 7 Jan 2013).

Johnston Street, featuring North Annandale Hotel

• Looking south along Johnston Street Annandale, near the intersection of Booth Street, around 1888 / photographer unknown http://collection.hht.net.au/firsthhtpictures/picturerecord.jsp?recno=36372

• A few more photos of the North Annandale Hotel (1914-2018) https://timegents.com/2018/01/18/north-annandale-hotel-annandale/

Before the Johnston Street | Johnston Street (South) | Johnston Street (North)

Self Guided Walk

A self guided walk along Johnston Street is described in Federation Annandale: a Short Walk

Annandale to Circular Quay

ramin.com.au/annandale/story-johnston-street.shtml Last updated 11 August 2020.