Some events in the history of Marcus Hill :-
| Pre-European Settlement | Area inhabited by Bengalat balug (Clan) of the Wathaurong Tribe |
| 1802 | First European explorers. January : Lieutenant John Murray April : Captain Matthew Flinders |
| 1803 - 1835 | William Buckley the first European living in the area |
| 1835 + | Area investigated and surveyed by Wedge and Gellibrand |
| 1836 + | Area occupied by squatters |
| 1863 | Church services began in a thatched hut, then a brick building that also served as a Sunday School |
| 1865 | Marcus Hill described as a small hamlet about four miles west-south-west of Queenscliff, at the head of a salt swamp draining into Swan Bay and on a freshwater lake or swamp. The scattered population consisted of small agriculturalists and a few brickmakers |
| 1870 | School opened by Anne Higgison - in 1874 became S.S. No. 1370 |
| 1878 | New School No. 2029 opened - originally called Queenscliff Road School |
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| 1884 | New church opened near the school |
| 1886 | Provision made for shelter-shed at Railway Station |
| 1888 | Movement said to be afoot to have Marcus Hill Railway Station renamed Paywit |
| 1889 | Tender accepted for erection of railway platform |
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| 1896 | Ocean Grove Railway Station renamed Marcus Hill - later it was called Marcus |
| 1928 | Marcus Hill School operating part-time with Ocean Grove School |
