Female School of Industry

Female School of Industry is a memorial in Sydney, New South Wales. Female School of Industry is situated nearby to State Library of New South Wales, as well as near Mitchell Library.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Darling Harbour and State Library of New South Wales.

Darling Harbour

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Darling Harbour is a leisure and entertainment precinct, in central Sydney. It extends to Pyrmont, Ultimo and the business district of Barangaroo, and contains The Star and Pyrmont Bay, including Harris St.

State Library of New South Wales

Library

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The State Library of New South Wales, part of which is known as the Mitchell Library, is a large heritage-listed special collections, reference and research library open to the public and is one of the oldest libraries in Australia.

Australian Securities Exchange

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Australian Securities Exchange Ltd is an Australian public company that operates Australia's primary securities exchange, the Australian Securities Exchange. Australian Securities Exchange is situated 270 metres southwest of Female School of Industry.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include City Centre and Sydney.

City Centre

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The Sydney City Centre was where Governor Arthur Phillip first raised the British flag on Australian soil in January 1788, the earliest site of European settlement in Australia.

Sydney

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Sydney is the Harbour City, and is the oldest and most cosmopolitan city in Australia with an enviable reputation as one of the world's most beautiful and livable cities.

The Rocks

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The Rocks is sandstone buildings, history, laneways, culture and Australiana by day, and a busy pub scene by night. It is the historical precinct of central Sydney immediately to the north of the City centre on the western side of Sydney Cove, and where the First Fleet set up their first convict settlement.

Female School of Industry

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “The colony was short of servants. In this school, originally a light-horse barracks, the ladies of Sydney sought to teach their lesser sisters ‘every branch of household work’. The site is now occupied by the Mitchell Library. Sponsored by Caltex.”
Category: historic site
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude

-33.86652° or 33° 51′ 60″ south

Longitude

151.21258° or 151° 12′ 45″ east

Open location code

4RRH46M7+92

OpenStreetMap ID

node 11539091831

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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