History of St.Kilda "CHANGE"

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  • 1 CE

    ~1800~1840

    ~1800~1840
    -Before the settlers came in about 1800, indigenous people of the Eastern Kulin nation were the owners of the location now known as St.Kilda which was originally called Euroe Yroke.
    -The first settler in St.Kilda was named Benjamin Baxter in around 1839.
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    1940~1960

    1940~1960
    -St.Kilda was home to Melbourne's first quarantine station for the Scottish immigrants in the 1940s.
    -The area was officially renamed as St Kilda in 1841.
    -After few years St Kilda became famous for wealthy settlers and the indigenous peoples were driven out of the land to surrounding areas.
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    1860~1870s

    1860~1870s
    -The population of the immigrants in St Kilda increased by double between 1870 and 1890 to about 19000 people.
    - The lower inland territories of St Kilda East were not all that affluent and included numerous smaller, semi disconnected cabins, numerous built of timber. A significant part of the territory which is currently St Kilda West was swampland, however was recovered and subdivided in the 1870s.
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    1880~1890s

    1880~1890s
    • Do to the Land Boom of the 1880s, St Kilda turned into a heavily populated region of extraordinary stone manors and palatial inns, especially along the ocean side boulevards.
    • The Esplanade Hotel was organised and built in 1878 sitting above St Kilda Beach and the George Hotel was worked in 1889 at the railroad end on Fitzroy Street.
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    1890~1920s

    1890~1920s
    • During the Depression of the 1890' large amount of well off families had lost a large proportion of fortunes and a few of the huge mansions were subdivided for apartments or boarding house accommodation.
    • Wealthy people moved to more exclusive suburbs such as Brighton, South Yarra and Toorak. From 1906, the Victorian Railways operated their 'Electric Street Railway' from St Kilda to Brighton.