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HistoryThe suburb of Woolooware is probably named after Woolooware Bay. This notation was first used on Assistant Surveyor Robert Dixon's map of 1827. The land was at one time granted to John Connell who was responsible for cutting a channel from the northern end of Woolooware Road to the deep water of the bay. This was used to float timber from his land to be taken by boat to the Sydney markets. The bay also provided opportunities for oyster cultivation from the early days. The land was then acquired by Thomas Holt who established his Sutherland Estate in the 1860s. It included most of what is currently known as the Sutherland Shire. Holt later leased most of his estate to the Holt Sutherland Estate Land Company who created estates for residential settlement. Mostly rural in character with some remnant eucalypt forest the Woolooware area was taken up by families such as the Greens and the Newports who operated dairies from the 1920s. Greens dairy became part of what is now the present day golf course. Other local industry included Burrell's laundry which was a commercial service operating in the 1940s with both the army and railway as clients. After the extension of the railway line from Sutherland to Cronulla in 1939 and the end of World War Two the area attracted mostly residential settlement. A high school was opened in 1968.
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Woolooware. Local History - Sutherland Shire Libraries, accessed 17/09/2024, https://localhistory.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/6097