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1838 – Geelong township surveyed, Geelong population is 545. 1839 – First sale of Geelong town allotments; 1839 – First postal mail between Geelong and Melbourne; 1840 – First issue of the Geelong Advertiser newspaper is published; 1842 – First St Mary's Catholic Church opens; 1845 – Geelong Keys discovered at Corio Bay
Dr. Alexander Thomson (1800 [1] – 1 January 1866) was elected as the first mayor of Geelong and held the position on five occasions from 1850 to 1858. Thomson was the first settler in the area known as Belmont, a suburb of Geelong and called his homestead Kardinia, a property now listed on the Register of the National Estate.
Geelong City Hall Geelong Telegraph Station on Ryrie Street HM Prison Geelong Gordon Institute of TAFE, Fenwick Street The former George and Dragon hotel (now a Restaurant) St Johns Lutheran Church Eastern Beach boardwalk and swimming enclosure Geelong Customs House. This is a list of heritage-listed buildings in Geelong, Australia, which have ...
Depiction of early Geelong as a small collection of houses and paddocks by the bay. In March 1836, three squatters, David Fisher, James Strachan, and George Russell, arrived on Caledonia and settled the area. [24] Geelong was first surveyed by Assistant Surveyor W. H. Smythe three weeks after Melbourne, and was gazetted as a town on 10 October ...
The Geelong Library and Heritage Centre is a regional library, archive and resource facility in the city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. [1] Geelong Free Library was begun in 1858. [2] The Geelong Historical Records Centre was established in 1979 as a depository for significant historical records and archives from the district. [3]
James Cowie (9 January 1809 – 14 November 1892) was an early 19th-century settler of Victoria, Australia, who became a member of both the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Victorian Legislative Council and also served as Mayor of Geelong. [1]
Geelong's wool stores played a significant role in the city's development as a commercial centre and supported Victoria's pastoral and agricultural interests, particularly the wool industry. The first Australian wool was sold in London at Garraway’s Coffee House in 1821, where businessmen would gather for auctions of various goods. Between ...
See Market Square Shopping Centre for the history of the shopping centre itself. The 1980s saw the first of many urban renewal proposals floated for the central Geelong area. The Geelong Regional Commission on 6 November 1981 released a plan that would see a massive shopping centre extend from Little Malop Street through to the waterfront. [3]