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Douglas Park is a town of the Macarthur Region in New South Wales, Australia in Wollondilly Shire. It is near the Hume Highway, the F5 Freeway and on the Main Southern railway line. Its station is served by NSW TrainLink's Southern Highlands Line. It is about 80 km southwest of Sydney. At the 2011 census, Douglas Park had a population of 1273 people. ==History== The area is in the lands of the Gandangara people and the Tharawal people. The first European settlement was named Hoare Town. The area is named thus on a map made by Surveyor General Sir Thomas Mitchell, in 1865.〔''The razor back obstruction and roads planned to avoid it shewing also Mr. Shone's central line of railway'' Map in State Library of NSW. This map also shows an area to the ''south'' of the town called 'D'Arietta'〕〔Williams, K. (2009) ''Along the Menangle Road : a concise history of the land grants on Menangle Road between Menangle Bridge and the junction with Picton Road'' Picton, N.S.W. ISBN 978-0-9579925-8-0〕 The two largest land grants in the district were those of Dr Henry Grattan Douglass〔http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010301b.htm〕 and Jean Baptiste de Arrietta.〔http://www.parish.woll.catholic.org.au/home/picton/History.html〕 Douglass in time gave his name to the town, the final "s" of his name being lost due to a cartographer's error; de Arrietta is remembered by the locality "Spaniard's Hill", lying to the north of the town.〔http://nishi.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejournal/issue/latrobe-68/t1-g-t7.html〕 Douglass had numbers of convicts working on his farm, as muster rolls in the State Records of NSW show.〔http://colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/colsec/d/f16c_di-do-13.htm | retrieved from State Records 20 May 2010〕 This farm may, however, have belonged to, or been managed by, Douglass' son.〔 The railway reached Douglas Park in 1863 as a station on the extension of the Main South Line from Campbelltown to Picton.〔Bayley, W. A. 1973. ''Picton-Mittagong Loop-Line Railway.'' Bulli: Austrail. ISBN 0-909597-14-6〕 In 1889, writer Ethel Turner, at the age of 17, visited the area: 6th April: Went to Newington Sports. Took cab to the grounds. The Sports were very poor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Douglas Park, New South Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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