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Many thousands of years of occupation
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
Issac Jeeves, Matthew Child & Jabez Richardson arrive in the district and build on the creek. Richardson calls his house
Harmony Vale, which gives the name for the settlement.
Left is a 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.
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