This small piece of land on the corner of Bridge and Loftus Streets has a number of significant remnants of the past a couple of which are in previous posts.
Macquarie Place was the first planned town square in colonial Sydney. It was formalised by Governor Lachlan Macquarie when he erected an obelisk in 1818 to mark the place from which all public roads in the colony were measured. The obelisk was designed by Francis Greenway and built by Edward Cureton a convict stonemason, from sandstone quarried around Sydney Cove.
It is the oldest surviving public monument in Australia.
This obelisk still remains as a marker and starting point for The Great North Walk.
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