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Before 1830
Many thousands of years of occupation
Aboriginal people fishing and camping on Merri Creek. Tinted lithograph by Charles Troedel, 1864 from Souvenir Views of Melbourne and Victorian Scenery, Melbourne, 1865. Held in the La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria.
The Wurundjeri people are an Aboriginal people of the Woiwurrung language group, in the Kulin nation. They are the traditional owners of the region that includes the area covered by our society. They were called the Yarra tribe by early European colonists.
1855
Enlargement of photograph taken by Norman Rowse in 1917 that shows the first home of Isaac Jeeves built at the Running (Olinda) Creek. The small building on the right behind the pony and the fowls was Isaac’s first substantial home and was occupied in 1858 he having lived in camp on the creek as a miner since 1855. The tall building on left was barn built in the 1860s and the large roof behind was a five roomed house with a tree fern floor.
The Early Pioneers
Issac Jeeves, Matthew Child & Jabez Richardson arrive in the district and build on the creek. Richardson calls his house Harmony Vole, which gives the name for the settlement.
1901
Pupils of Mount Dandenong Primary School with Mr. Cronk
School
Mount Dandenong Primary School No. 3284 opened with Mr Cronk as Head Master.
1910
Farndons Hall in a state of disrepair probably 1990s. View from Farndons Road.
Farndon’s Hall
Bill Farndon builds Hall opposite his Callum House.
