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The Geelong Club: 74 Brougham Street 1888–89 [22] Geelong Customs House: 57 Brougham Street 1855–56 [23] Geelong railway station: 1 Railway Terrace 1877 [24] Geelong Synagogue: 74–78 McKillop Street 1861 [25] Geelong Telegraph Station: 83A Ryrie Street 1857–58 [26] Geelong City Hall: 30 Gheringhap Street 1855 [27] Geelong Wool Exchange ...
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]
The former Geelong Law Courts, in Myers Street, Geelong. 1910 – Geelong officially becomes a city; 1912 – Electric trams begin operation in Geelong; 1912 – First automatic telephone exchange in the Southern Hemisphere opens in Geelong; 1920 – Royal Australian Navy's submarine fleet based at Osborne House; 1925 – Geelong Football Club ...
The area of Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula was originally occupied by Indigenous Australian clans of the Wadawurrung nation, prior to European settlement in the early 19th century. [2] This area was a favourite and extensive camping place for the Wadawurrung people.
Settled as Emu Bay, renamed in the early 1840s to Burnie after William Burnie. 1827 Oceania House, Home Island: Cocos-Keeling Islands: The islands were uninhabited prior to 1827. They became a territory of Australia in 1955. 1827 Tarago: New South Wales 1829 Clarence: Western Australia Abandoned in the early 1830s. 1829 Fremantle: Western ...
Here Batman showed Wedge where he had explored and, from these details, Wedge prepared the first map of Melbourne in June 1835 (published in 1836), showing the location Batman had chosen as the site for the "village" and the division of land between association members. The Batman treaty for the area of Geelong, signed and dated 6 June 1835.
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 area was first settled by pastoralists in the late 1830s. [2] Wynd (1992) suggests that there was less conflict with the Wautharong traditional owners in the Barrabool Hills than further inland, but that incidents where settlers' animals were killed in the area sparked the 187 decision to send Foster Fyans as police sergeant to Geelong in 1837, followed by a thirteen-man military ...