Old Sydney Town has proved to be a valuable cultural asset of significance to the community’s understanding and appreciation of Australia’s early European settlement. The role it has and can play in helping to interpret our European history and its interaction with the Aboriginal community at the time of first settlement is one that should not be lost.
In 1970 Frank Fox, founded Old Sydney Town. Perhaps you will remember that Frank conceived the project of creating, at his extensive property on the shore of a man-made lake at Somersby, a facsimile of Sydney as it was before the arrival of Governor Macquarie.
From then until the opening of Old Sydney Town by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on Australia Day 1975, the research staff worked on trying to achieve what Frank Fox referred to a ‘unimpeachable authenticity’.