page_title: Bargara, Queensland
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bargara, Queensland / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Bargara Golf Clubhouse, Bargara.
context_page_description: Bargara is a coastal town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. The town lies 384 kilometres north of the state capital Brisbane and just 13 kilometres east of Bundaberg. Bargara is considered to be a satellite suburb of Bundaberg, with only sugar cane fields separating the two centres. Nielson Park is a town in the north of the locality, only 1.5 kilometres from the town of Bargara.
context_section_description: Prior to 1913, Bargara was officially known as Sandhills. The Sandhills Provisional School opened in 1893, and was renamed Bargara State School in 1921. The name Bargara is derived from the names of two adjacent localities, Barolin and Woongarra.
  Between 1912 and 1948, the Woongarra (Pemberton) railway line connected Bargara to Bundaberg.
  Bargara Post Office opened by 1923 (a receiving office had been open since 1912).
  At the 2011 census, Bargara had a population of 6,893.
  On Australia Day 2013, Bargara was struck by a tornado spawned by ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald. The tornado damaged over 150 properties, and injured up to 17 people, 2 seriously.
caption: Bargara Golf Clubhouse, October 1931
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