What is Gundaroo?
[[Image:Gundaroo 1.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Gundaroo's main street]] '''Gundaroo''' is a small [[village]] in [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]]. It is in the [[Yass Valley, New South Wales|Yass Valley Shire]]. It is built near the [[Yass River]]. Gundaroo is about 16 [[kilometre|km]]s north of [[Sutton, New South Wales|Sutton]] and about 15&nbsp;km west of the Lake George range. About 300 people live there. ==History== The [[explorer]]s [[Charles Throsby]] and [[Joseph Wild]] travelled through the Yass River valley in 1820. The [[Indigenous Australian|Aborigines]] called the valley ''Candariro'' which means ''blue crane''. This name might be the meaning of the word Gundaroo.<ref>* ''Exploring the ACT and Southeast New South Wales'', J. Kay McDonald, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1985 {{ISBN|0-86417-049-1}}</ref> Governor [[Lachlan Macquarie]] gave the first [[Europe]]n settler, Peter Cooney, 30 acres in 1825. Other farms were started quickly with about 400 people in the 1840s. The Harrow Inn ([[hotel]]) was built in 1834. A post office was built in 1848 and an Anglican church, St Lukes in Upper Gundaroo (now part of a [[pottery]] business), in 1849. The first [[school]] opened in 1850 and a [[Police station]] in 1852.<ref>{{cite web | title =''Gundaroo'' | publisher =The Southern Tablelands of NSW | url =http://www.argylecounty.com.au/towns/gundaroo.html | accessdate =2007-07-13 | archive-date =2007-08-03 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070803213524/http://www.argylecounty.com.au/towns/gundaroo.html | url-status =dead }}</ref> When gold was discovered in the area in 1852 many more people came to the town.<ref>''Canberra's Engineering Heritage'', William Charles Andrews, Institution of Engineers, Canberra, 1990 p5</ref> Gundaroo has become a place where people who work in [[Canberra]] can live. It is a village for [[tourist]]s from Canberra to visit because of its well cared for historic buildings. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{coord|35|02|S|149|17|E|region:AU-NSW_type:city(100)|dis