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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.
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]
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 ...
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 Port Phillip Association (originally the Geelong and Dutigalla Association) [1] was formally formed in June 1835 to settle land in what would become Melbourne, which the association believed had been acquired by John Batman for the association from Wurundjeri elders after he had obtained their marks to a document, which came to be known as Batman's Treaty.
Old Geelong Grammar School: 55 Maud Street 1857–58 [38] Old Geelong Post Office: 83 Ryrie Street 1889–90 [39] Railway Tunnel: Geelong–Warrnambool railway line 1874–75 [40] Sailors Rest Electric Sign: 3 Moorabool Street 1926 [41] Scottish Chiefs Hotel: 99 Corio Street 1848 [42] St Giles Church and Free Church School: 72–80 Gheringhap ...
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]
Fyansford is a township on the western edge of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, named after Captain Foster Fyans who came to Geelong as a Police magistrate in October, 1837. It is located at the junction of the Barwon and Moorabool rivers. At the 2016 census, Fyansford had a population of 196. [1]