In honour of Liverpool's 215th foundation anniversary, Liverpool Regional Museum recently launched an exhibition to explore part of Macquarie's vision for a series of towns beyond the penal colony. Notably, the first Macquarie town was also the site of the first land grant awarded under colonial rule to an Aboriginal woman, Maria Lock. Maria Lock was born in 1805 to the Boorooberongal clan of the Dharug people near the current town of Richmond. In 1822 she married Dicky, the son of Bennelong, but he died only a few weeks later. She married a second time in 1824 to Robert Lock, a convict. That was the first officially sanctioned Aboriginal-British union within the colony. At the time of her marriage, Maria had been promised a land grant, but she never received it. After years of petitioning various Governors, she was granted 40 acres of land in 1831 at Brickmakers Creek in Liverpool. I thank the hardworking Liverpool Regional Museum staff for telling the untold stories of Liverpool so that we may better appreciate our history and our journey to the place we are today.