Macdonaldtown, New South Wales facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Macdonaldtown Sydney, New South Wales
Macdonaldtown railway station entrance
Postcode(s)	2042
Location	4 km (2 mi) south-west of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)	City of Sydney
Localities around Macdonaldtown: Camperdown Darlington Darlington Newtown Macdonaldtown Eveleigh Newtown Erskineville Eveleigh

Macdonaldtown is an urban place in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 4 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, within the suburb of Newtown and adjacent to Erskineville. Macdonaldtown is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney and informally part of the region of the Inner West. The locality is around Macdonaldtown railway station, on the Airport, Inner West & South Line of the Sydney Trains network.

History

The area was originally part of a grant made to Irishman, Nicholas Devine, who arrived in 1790 as the first principal superintendent of convicts. - viz. "A Mr Macdonald, who owned a large ironmongery at the corner of George and Market Streets in the city, lived near the present Macdonaldtown station and was a major property owner here."

The source of the name "Macdonaltown" has a very different story, involving a scandal of forged documents consigning Devine's property to a convict.

Macdonaldtown, the whole suburb, was incorporated as a local government area in 1872 and was renamed as Erskineville in 1893.