Blacktown – Wikipedia

Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Greater Western Sydney, in the submit of New South Wales, Australia. Blacktown is located 34 km ( 21 michigan ) west of the Sydney central clientele zone. Blacktown is the largest of any township in New South Wales [ citation needed ] and is one of the most multicultural places within Greater Sydney. [ 2 ]

history [edit ]

Blacktown Township, 1886, subdivision plan. anterior to the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, the area of today ‘s Blacktown was inhabited by different groups of the Darug people including the Warmuli, based around what is now Prospect, and their neighbours the Gomerigal from the South Creek area and the Wawarawarry from the Eastern Creek sphere. [ citation needed ] It is estimated that fifty to ninety percentage of the Darug died of smallpox and other introduce diseases within a few years of the british arrival. Governor Arthur Phillip began granting land in the area to white settlers in 1791. [ clarification needed ] In 1819 Governor Lachlan Macquarie granted land to two autochthonal men, Colebee and Nurragingy as payment for their servicing to The Crown, for assisting Cox with the road over the Blue Mountains and in dealing with Aboriginal issues. [ 3 ] In 1823, the Native Institution ( a school for Aboriginal children ) was moved from Parramatta to the site where Richmond Road meets Rooty Hill Road North ( this intersection is now in the suburb of Oakhurst and Glendenning ) which was named “ The Blacks Town ”. The mental hospital was then known as Black Town Native Institute and it was synonymous with the stolen coevals. Although the mental hospital closed in 1833, the road heading out to the Institute became known as the Black Town Road. In 1860 the Railway Department gave the name of Black Town Road Station to the railroad track post at the junction of the railway and the Black Town Road, with the identify shortening to Blacktown by 1862. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The arrival of the railroad track led to the formation of a town around the station. A post position was opened in 1862 and a school in 1877. In 1906, the Shire of Blacktown was formed and in 1930, electricity was introduced to the town. The population in 1933 was then about 13,000. In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a large amount of suburban development both in the current suburb of Blacktown and the newfangled suburbs that sprung up around it. This led to civic development in the town center with the hospital open in 1965, the courthouse and police station in 1966, the library in 1967 and the TAFE college in 1969. In 1973, the Westpoint patronize center opened which was soon followed by the film complex. [ 4 ]

commercial area [edit ]

The Blacktown Commercial Business District is located conclusion to Blacktown railroad track station. Westpoint Blacktown is a major patronize centre and there are a number of minor shops, restaurants and hotels in the encompassing area. Westpoint besides houses a western suburb television receiver studio of the Nine Network. The Blacktown CBD features the following landmarks :

• Blacktown City Council corporate head office
• Blacktown Courthouse
• Blacktown Hospital
• Blacktown Workers Club
• Cucina Locale Revolving Restaurant
• Max Webber Library – Blacktown City Council’s newly completed central library
• Patrician Brothers’ College Blacktown
• Nagle College Blacktown

A celebrated Blacktown retailer in the 1950s was Frank Lowy who conducted a delicatessen and belittled goods denounce in Main Street. [ 7 ]
Blacktown Hospital Max Webber Library Blacktown Rail Station

tape drive [edit ]

According to the 2006 census, the most common way of getting to work from Blacktown was by car ( 74 % ) with public transport used by equitable under twenty dollar bill percentage. Most populace enchant was done by train ( 17 % ) with five percentage hitch buses for all or part of their travel. [ 8 ] Blacktown railroad track station is on the North Shore & Western Line and the Cumberland Line of the Sydney Trains net. A major busbar exchange is located future to the station and an clandestine bus topology place is at the entrance to Westpoint. Blacktown is a terminus of the North-West T-way. Busways provides services to Northern areas ( Rouse Hill, Castle Hill, Kellyville, Glenwood and Stanhope Gardens ), West areas ( Mount Druitt, Plumpton, Oakhurst, Quakers Hill, Dean Park, Woodcroft ) and South districts ( Prospect, Arndell Park, Huntingwood, Tallawong, Doonside, Blacktown Hospital ), whilst Hillsbus provides Eastern services ( Macquarie Park, Seven Hills, Parramatta, Kings Langley ) .

Schools [edit ]

The Blacktown Tourist Centre is located in the original Blacktown School building

Blacktown Arts Centre The first school, a single-storey brick build with gables, was opened in 1877. While no longer in consumption as a school, the building in Flushcombe Road is now used as a Visitor Information Centre. It is the oldest remaining building in the Blacktown CBD and is heritage-listed. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] There are a big number of schools in the suburb. Government-run elementary schools in the sphere include : Blacktown North Public School, Blacktown South Public School, Blacktown West Public School, Lynwood Park Public School, Marayong South Public School, Shelley Public School, and Walters Road Public School. Public high schools include : Blacktown Boys High School, Blacktown Girls High School, Evans High School and Mitchell High School. There is besides the Coreen School, which caters to older children with learning difficulties. [ 11 ] There are two Catholic elementary schools, St Michaels Primary School and St Patricks Primary School, and two Catholic high schools, Nagle College for girls and patrician Brothers ‘ College Blacktown for boys. Tyndale christian School is a private school covering children from kindergarten to year 12. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ]

Blacktown Arts Centre [edit ]

Blacktown Arts Centre is located at 78 Flushcombe Road on the highest degree of domain in the Blacktown CBD. primitively built in the 1950s as an anglican church, the build was deconsecrated in 1999. primitively acquired by Blacktown Council as a web site for a car park, the Council in partnership with Arts NSW subsequently refurbished the build as a multi-arts concentrate. [ 15 ] The center opened to the public in October 2002. In 2006 the center underwent a multimillion-dollar refit and extension. The build reopened in April 2007 with facilities for operation, extended ocular art galleries, workshop space and enhanced administrative areas .
Grantham Reserve

sport and diversion [edit ]

• Blacktown Stadium part of Blacktown Olympic park – capacity 10,000
• Fairfax Community Stadium (Used by NSWPL team Blacktown City Demons) – 7,500 capacity (1,200 seated)
• Blacktown Baseball Stadium (Baseball) 5,000 capacity (1,200 seated)
• Blacktown Softball Stadium (Softball) 5,000 capacity (1,100 seated)
• Blacktown Showground (festivals and cultural events/activities)
• Village Green & Civic Centre (Community events. Known as “Blacktown’s Dancers Lane”)
• PCYC Blacktown
• Blacktown Aquatic Center
• Blacktown Norwegian Ice Bathing Club
• Bungarribee Park[16]
• Featherdale Wildlife Park
• Alpha Park
• Blacktown Olympic Park[17]
• Grantham Reserve

Media [edit ]

Blacktown is served by local newspaper Blacktown Advocate and residential district radio station SWR Triple 9 .

population [edit ]

Demographics [edit ]

According to the 2016 census, there were 47,176 residents in the suburb of Blacktown. 46.1 % of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of parentage were India 13.3 %, Philippines 5.4 %, China 2.5 %, New Zealand 2.2 % and Fiji 2.0 %. 44.2 % of people lone spoke English at home. other languages spoken at home included Punjabi 8.9 %, Hindi 5.0 %, Arabic 4.0 %, Tagalog 3.2 % and Gujarati 2.4 %. The most common responses for religion in Blacktown were catholic 25.3 %, No Religion 14.1 %, Hinduism 12.3 % and anglican 8.6 %. [ 1 ]

noteworthy people [edit ]

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