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Line 45: ==History== The [[Indigenous Australian\|Aboriginal]] tribe of ~~Gandangara~~Cabrogal once ~~lived~~thrived in the area. European settlement began in the early ~~1840s~~1820s. During the 1860s, Villawood was used as pastoral land, but it was overrun with wild dogs. Woodville Road, which runs through Villawood, was once named Dog Trap Road because many farmers set dog traps for these wild dogs. A train station opened in 1922 to service the area was originally known as Woodville Road. Unfortunately, there was confusion with another place called [[Woodville, New South Wales\|Woodville]] in the [[Hunter Region\|Hunter Valley]] and thus the name was transposed into 'Villawood'.<ref>''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollon, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia {{ISBN\|0-207-14495-8}}, page 260</ref> The Villawood area is home to a large [[public housing in Australia\|public housing]] estate constructed around the 1950s-1970s consisting of detached cottages, semi-detached townhouses, walk up apartments on Urana street, and formerly a [[Radburn design housing]] complex on the site of Thurina park, which became infamous for serious social issues, such as drugs and anti-social youth crime, even eventually breeding a gang called "the Bronx boys", dabbling in the drug trade and car-rebirthing before the eventual demolition of the complex in 1998.

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