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Burrundie's significance waned in the early 20th the century, evidenced by the closure of the police station in 1906 (was briefly reopened before again closing in 1908), abolition of the local court in 1908 and the relocation of the prefabricated Mining Warden's Office building to Pine Creek in 1913.
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in a series of massacres, often associated with the town of
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Burrundie as part of their traditional lands. Recognition of this claim was complicated by a frontier conflict in 1884. As reprisal for reportedly spearing and killing four European settlers, the Woolwonga were believed to have been
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Burials at
Burrundie cemetery lasted from 1893 until 1901.
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