Editing Bundaberg (section)

=== Town of Bundaberg ===
In 1867, timber-getters and farmers, John and Gavin Steuart, established the Woondooma property which consisted of a few houses and a wharf on the northern banks of the Burnett River where [[Bundaberg North, Queensland|Bundaberg North]] now stands.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bundaberg.qld.gov.au/discover/our-history/bundaberg|title=Bundaberg|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514114703/http://www.bundaberg.qld.gov.au/discover/our-history/bundaberg|archive-date=14 May 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="brch"/> An official survey of the area was undertaken in 1869 by [[John Charlton Thompson]],<ref name="brch">{{Cite web |url=http://bundaberg.qld.gov.au/discover/our-history/bundaberg |title=History of Bundaberg |access-date=21 September 2010 |publisher=[[Bundaberg Regional Council]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217191305/http://bundaberg.qld.gov.au/discover/our-history/bundaberg |archive-date=17 February 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> assisted by James Ellwood and Alfred Dale Edwards,<ref name="Rackemann">''Bundaberg – From Pioneers to Prosperity.'' (1992) Neville Rackemann. p46 {{ISBN|0-646-12555-9}}</ref> and the town of Bundaberg was gazetted across the river on the higher, southern banks. The first Bundaberg land sale was held in [[Maryborough, Queensland|Maryborough]] on 11 May 1870 where hotelier John Foley bought the original lots.<ref name="nolan" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148017566 |title=GOVERNMENT LAND SALE. |newspaper=[[Maryborough Chronicle, Wide Bay and Burnett Advertiser]] |location=Queensland, Australia |date=12 May 1870 |access-date=23 April 2020 |page=2 |via=Trove |archive-date=25 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325050832/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/148017566 |url-status=live }}</ref>