Real Estate: Douglas Park

The area is in the lands of the Gandangara people and the Tharawal people, the first European settlement was in 1865, with the two largest land grants in the district were those of Dr Henry Grattan Douglass and Jean Baptiste de Arrietta. Douglass in time gave his name to the town, the final “s”of his name being lost due to a cartographers error.

Now the existing, close knit Douglas Park community comprises of 451 dwellings with a population of 1,273 people (2011 ABS Census).