Burnett Bridge, Bundaberg, 1963

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

From the Queensland Heritage Register.

The Burnett Bridge is a metal truss bridge spanning the Burnett River at Bundaberg, linking the two sections of the city. It was constructed in 1900 to the design of A.B. Brady.

The Burnett area was first settled by Europeans in the 1840s and 50s as a series of pastoral runs. In the late 1860s, as good agricultural land around Maryborough began to be scarce, agriculturalists and timbergetters became interested in land on the navigable Burnett River to the north. The foundation settlers of Bundaberg selected land in 1867-68 under the ‘Sugar and Coffee Regulations’ stemming from the Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1860s which aimed to promote agriculture and closer settlement. The site of Bundaberg was officially surveyed in 1869. Coastal traffic grew, and copper was first mined at Mt Perry in 1871, which enabled Bundaberg to develop as a port

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