Parish: Calderwood
County: Camden
Penrose was a suburb in the Dapto area.
In 2015, Penrose was merged into the suburb of Avondale, to eliminate confusion with another suburb in the NSW Southern Highlands which is also called Penrose.
For information on this area, please see our Avondale page.
Local communities of Aboriginal people were the original inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of Illawarra Land. Their dialect is a variant of the Dharawal language.
Before European settlement, the Aboriginal people of the region lived in small family groups with complicated social structures and close associations with specific areas.
Suburb boundaries do not reflect the cultural boundaries of the local Aboriginal community.
Traditional Custodians today are descendants of the original inhabitants and have ongoing spiritual and cultural ties to the Land and waterways where their ancestors lived.
Top image: Painting of Penrose (date and artist unknown). See image details on our catalogue