Cowan Heights, St
Cowan or Cowans may refer to: Places Australia * Cowan, New South Wales * Cowan Creek, a waterway to the north of Sydney, Australia * Division of Cowan, a federal division of the Australian House of Representatives, in Western Australia * Hundred of Cowan, a cadastral division in South Australia Canada * Cowan, Manitoba United States * Cowan, California * Cowan, Indiana * Cowan, Pennsylvania * Cowan, Tennessee * Cowans Brook, a stream in Minnesota Other uses * Cowan (surname), a surname * EML ''Admiral Cowan'' (M313), a ''Sandown''-class minehunter of the Estonian Navy See also * * Cowen (other) * Parkinson Cowan, a brand of cooking appliances * Rich & Cowan Rich & Cowan Ltd was a book publisher, based at 37 Bedford Square, London WC1. They specialized in literary books. Books * '' A Ghost in Monte Carlo'' by Barbara Cartland, (1951) * ''Goethe: a play in four acts'' by S. M. and C. S. Fox, London,( ...

Cowan, New South Wales
Cowan is a small town and suburb near Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, approximately north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire. Cowan shares the postcode of 2081 with Berowra. Brooklyn, which lies to the north-east of Cowan, is considered the northernmost suburb of the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area. History The town takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning ''big water''. The 1828 census lists two convicts called Cowan, and it is also thought possible that Cowan was named after one of them. Still another suggestion is that it was named after a small town in Scotland. Material was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Generic 2.0license. Besides the English botanist George Caley, who explored the area in 1805, the first Europeans to visit the area were timber-getters. The timber from Cowan was used for coach building, one of the first industries ...
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