Marcus Hill: Timeline

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
1882	Church enlarged and moved near the State School on the Queenscliff Road. The church was subsidized by the Pastoral Aid Society, and Presbyterian and Church of England ministers had worked harmoniously there Marcus Hill railway station built. This was on Swan Bay Road and later was renamed Mannerim
1883	Marcus Hill Post Office gazetted - later renamed Mannerim Great demands on the well-established brick-making industry at Marcus Hill by increased building activity at Queenscliff
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
1890	Name of Marcus Hill Railway Station changed to Mannerim Railway Station Grigg & Kimberley called tenders for erection of a large weatherboard building for bark factory at corner of Queenscliff and Grubb Roads, Marcus Hill
1896	Ocean Grove Railway Station renamed Marcus Hill - later it was called Marcus
1928	Marcus Hill School operating part-time with Ocean Grove School