It was the town that built Sydney.

The chimney stacks over Portland’s historic cement works are no longer active. But the precinct is finding a new life building something else—a destination.

At the tail end of the 19th century in the NSW Blue Mountains a £100,000 investment led to the creation of Portland’s quarry and cement works. And in 1906 Portland was gazetted as a town. The fortunes of both were forever intertwined.