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St Vincent's College, Potts Point. St Vincent's College is situated on the corner of Victoria Street and Challis Avenue. It was founded in 1858 by Irish Sisters of Charity and was known as the Victoria Street Roman Catholic School. Its cluster of brick buildings makes a distinctive landmark. Butler, McElhone and Hordern Stairs
Potts Point is located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. Potts Point sits on a ridge immediately east of Woolloomooloo, west of Elizabeth Bay and Rushcutters Bay and north of Darlinghurst. The suburb has a roughly trapezoidal shape, and at its ...
In the 1830s the whole area from Potts Point to Kings Cross and up to Oxford Street was known as Darlinghurst- probably named in honour of Governor Ralph Darling’s (1824–31) wife, Eliza. The rocky ridge that extended inland from Potts Point was called Eastern or Woolloomooloo Hill from the early days of white settlement.
Pottsville is a town in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia in Tweed Shire.At the 2021 Census, Pottsville had a population of 7,209. [1] Bill Potts owned the first house in Pottsville around and the location was initially named Potts Point.
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The Garden Island Tunnel System, also known as Garden Island tunnels, Garden Island Tunnel Complex and Potts Point Tunnels, is a former tunnel warfare system in Garden Island, Sydney, Australia. Used in World War II by the Royal Australian Navy in 1941, the tunnels were dug from sandstone beneath Potts Point after the Japanese attacked Pearl ...
Donald Trump greets his campaign manager Susie Wiles during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, on November 6, 2024.
In 1830 Wylde sold six of his 4 hectares (11 acres) on the Point to Joseph Hyde Potts, accountant to the Bank of New South Wales, after whom Potts Point is named. [1] By the late 1820s Sydney was a crowded, disorderly and unsanitary town closely settled around the Rocks and Sydney Cove, with a European population of around 12,000. Governor ...