page_title: Tewantin
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tewantin / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Tewantin War Memorial, Town Square, Tewantin.
context_page_description: Tewantin is a rural town and locality in the Shire of Noosa, Queensland, Australia. In the 2016 census, Tewantin had a population of 10,920 people. Tewantin was the original settlement in the Noosa region and is one of its three major centres today.
context_section_description: The name Tewantin is an anglicised version of the Aboriginal name for the area, dauwadhum, meaning place of dead logs, because of the sawmill there.
  Tewantin was originally a timber town. In 1869, Tewantin was the river port for the Noosa area. In 1871, Clarendon Stuart surveyed a town site for the Tewantin settlement. Tewantin was a thriving small town with a reliance on the gold, fishing and timber industries.
  
  Tewantin Provisional School opened on 2 August 1875. On 25 April 1887, it became Tewantin State School .
  The Tewantin War Memorial commemorates those from the district who served in World War I. It was dedicated in January–February 1922 by Colonel David Elder Reid.
  Tewantin replaced Pomona on 1 December 1985 as the location of the Noosa Shire Council until 15 March 2008 when the Council was amalgamated with Maroochy Shire and the City of Caloundra to create the Sunshine Coast Region. In 2014, the Shire of Noosa was re-established having deamalgamated from the Sunshine Coast Region.
  Noosa Flexible Learning Centre opened on 23 January 2006.
caption: Tewantin War Memorial, Town Square, circa 1931
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