Traditional Dharug lands stretch roughly from the coast, north to Wisemans Ferry, west into the Blue Mountains to Hartley, south along both sides of the Nepean River to Appin, and then east approximately along the Georges River to Botany Bay. This broad region, which includes the Cumberland Plain where Blacktown is located, has been home to Dharug for thousands of years. Historical accounts and oral stories passed down by Dharug Elders speak of the Blacktown and Eastern Creek areas as being continuously occupied by Dharug. They made open campsites on higher ground with access to water sources such as creeks, billabongs and wetlands, and moved with the seasons to take advantage of plentiful plants and animals. The displacement of Dharug from their traditional lands and practices following European colonisation (invasion) in 1788 has meant many traditional stories and practices have been impacted. Dharug Cultural connections to Country in the Blacktown area are important and many Dharug people continue to live on Country today.

Dharug connections to Country are both tangible and intangible. Tangible connections are physical representations of life and Culture, for example, stone tools, rockshelters, art sites, shell middens, burials and scarred trees. Intangible connections, including stories, lore, customs, associations, traditions, and social practices are as significant as tangible evidence.

Over past decades, archaeological surveys across the Cumberland Plain area, including the Blacktown area, have provided evidence of connection and belonging to the land. Evidence of Dharug life, particularly in the form of stone tools, can be found across the Cumberland Plain, including creeklines. The main toolkits of Dharug people consisted of specially prepared stone, attached to wooden handles (of which only the stone survives), which served as weapons, knives, and for preparing food. As Dharug People moved across the landscape, these tools can help tell the story of how the landscape was used, their trade patterns and exchanges between different groups of Dharug and other Aboriginal people across the wider Cumberland Plain.

Stone tools in the Blacktown area were usually made from silcrete, a hard rock in a range of colours, that occurs along the Plumpton Ridge. Quartz (a mineral), quartzite (metamorphic rock of quartz) and chert rock (similar to flint) were also used in production. These rock types generally occur in natural quarry locations across the Cumberland Plain, as cobbles and pebbles in creeks, and along old river beds. They are easy to identify, and when found outside the areas in which they naturally occur show that Dharug used and carried these tools to different locations.

While other tangible evidence of Dharug use of the Blacktown area such as bark shelters, earth ovens and fire pits may disintegrate over time, stone artefacts or tools, by their very nature, endure.