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Name First Reclamation Works
Category Infrastructure - Buildings
Data Info In 1822, Raffles drew up plans for the city. An area along the coast about five km long and one km deep was designated the government and commercial quarter. A hill was levelled and the dirt used to fill a nearby swamp to build the Commercial Square, to be renamed Raffles Place in 1858.
 
 
     
 
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