The Falcon Estate, of which Rowena Crescent is part, was laid out by Alfred Heaver in 1880.
Rowena Crescent was set back some distance from the railway when the street opened that year. The original streets on the Falcon Estate were named after British victories throughout the Empire which had taken place before the Estate was designed. Therefore we find a Candahar Road, Khyber Road and an Afghan Road named after the 1870s Afghanistan campaign alone. There had also been a skirmish in southern Africa during the decade and Rowena Crescent was assigned the name Zulu Crescent.
Local residents petitioned against the name and the more peaceable Rowena Crescent came into being soon afterwards.
