Editing Woolloomooloo (section)

==History==
===Aboriginal culture===
[[File:Woolloomooloo Bay Watercolour 1855.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|left|Woolloomooloo Bay in 1855 (watercolour)]]
The current spelling of "Woolloomooloo" is derived from the name of the first homestead in the area, ''Wolloomooloo House'', built by the first landowner John Palmer. There is debate as to how Palmer came up with the name with different [[Australian Aborigine|Aboriginal]] words being suggested. Anthropologist J.D. McCarthy wrote in 'NSW Aboriginal Places Names', in 1946, that Woolloomooloo could be derived from either ''Wallamullah'', meaning ''place of plenty'' or ''Wallabahmullah'', meaning a ''young black kangaroo''.<ref name="Requiem">{{cite book |last=Farwell |first=George |year=1971 |title=Requiem for Woolloomooloo |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |isbn=0-340-15777-1}}</ref>

In 1852, the traveller Col. G.C. Mundy wrote that the name came from ''Wala-mala'', meaning an "[Aboriginal] burial ground". It has also been suggested that the name means ''field of blood'', due to the alleged Aboriginal tribal fights that took place in the area, or that it is from the pronunciation by Aboriginals of ''windmill'', from the one that existed on Darlinghurst ridge until the 1850s.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

===European settlement===
[[File:Woolloomooloo 1866 SLNSW FL1104967.jpg|thumb|Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, 1866]]
After the [[First Fleet]]'s arrival in Sydney, the area was initially recognised as Garden Cove or Garden Island Cove after the nearby small wooded [[Garden Island, New South Wales|Garden Island]], off the shore. The first land grant was given to John Palmer in 1793 to allow him to run cattle for the fledgling colony.

An 1832 map by [[Thomas Mitchell (explorer)|Thomas Mitchell]] shows "Woolloomooloo Estate" <!-- sic, one 'l' --> extending from the road "To South Head" northwards to Woolloomooloo Bay. To the east lies a hill with windmills and a "New Prison", and land grants on the peninsula that is now the suburbs of [[Potts Point]] and [[Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales|Elizabeth Bay]].<ref>{{cite map |last1=Mitchell |first1=Thomas Livingstone |title=Sketch of the coast from Darling Harbour to Elizabeth Bay: showing the grants to Mr McLeay and six other gentlemen. |url=https://dictionaryofsydney.org/media/5514 |publisher=House of Commons |date=16 July 1832}} The map shows the original shore-line of Woolloomooloo Bay, Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay. The land to the northwest around Farm Cove is designated "Government Domain".</ref>

In the 1840s, the farm land was subdivided into what is now Woolloomooloo, [[Darlinghurst]] and parts of [[Surry Hills]]. Originally the area saw affluent residents building grand houses, many with spectacular gardens, attracted by the bay and close proximity to the city and [[Government House, Sydney|Government House]].<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=http://www.warrenfahey.com/articles/woolloomooloo.html |title=Australian Folklore Unit |access-date=31 December 2006 |last=Fahey |first=Warren}}</ref>

The area slowly started to change after expensive houses were built in [[Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales|Elizabeth Bay]] and further east and a road was needed from Sydney. It was for this reason that [[William Street, Sydney|William Street]] was built, dividing the land for the first time.

Woolloomooloo Bay was used extensively as a port. As recently as October 1971, the [[Maritime Services Board]] opened a 200 metre berth on the western side of the bay.<ref>Materials handling ''[[Freight & Container Transportation]]'' October 1971 page 53</ref>

===Trams===
The Woolloomooloo [[Trams in Sydney|tram line]] opened in stages between 1915 and 1918. This line branched off from [[Park Street, Sydney|Park Street]] and ran north along Haig Avenue, Sir John Young Crescent and Lincoln Crescent to Brown's Wharf at Woolloomooloo. Through service ran from [[Circular Quay]] via [[Elizabeth Street, Sydney|Elizabeth]] and [[Park Street, Sydney|Park]] streets. The line was an early closure, in 1935, being replaced by a bus service from [[Pyrmont, New South Wales|Pyrmont]].

=== Green ban ===
In February 1973, the [[Builders Labourers Federation]] placed a two-year long [[green ban]] on the suburb to stop the destruction of low-income housing and trees.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Green Bans Art Walks Project |date=2023-06-23 |title=Green Bans Timeline: 1971-74 |url=https://commonslibrary.org/green-bans-timeline/ |access-date=2023-07-09 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref> It succeeded and 65% of the houses were placed under rent control.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/green_bans_movement|title=Green Bans movement|last=Burgmann|first=Verity and Meredith|date=2011}}</ref>