Colebee is a
suburb of
Sydney, in the state of
New South Wales
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Australia. Colebee is located 47 kilometres west of the
Sydney central business district, in the
local government area of the
City of Blacktown and is part of the
Western Sydney
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History
Colebee was named after C. Colebee who is believed to have been the first
indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
to have been granted land in the Blacktown area, at Plumpton Ridge.
He was the son of
Yarramundi
Yarramundi (ca. 1760 – after 1818) was an Indigenous Australian called by Europeans "the chief of the Richmond Tribe" or "Tribes". He was a member of the Boorooberongal clan of the Darug people, and was a ''garadyi'' or "doctor".
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Heritage listings
Colebee has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
* Richmond Road:
Colebee and Nurragingy Land Grant
Colebee and Nurragingy Land Grant is a heritage-listed former farm at Richmond Road, Colebee, City of Blacktown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as Colebee and Nurragingy's Land Grant, Colebee Release Area, 773, 777 and 78 ...
References
Suburbs of Sydney
City of Blacktown
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