Places

Mitcham was named after Mitcham Grove, a farm property owned by William Slater, who grew roses and herbs for perfumes and remedies. Read More

In Parkside Avenue, Blackburn a 250 year old stringybark is believed to have been the focus in a place of ritual of the Wurundjeri people, original inhabitants of the Nuwawading area. Read More

The landscape of Vermont was thickly timbered bushland, inhabited by the Wurundjeri, Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation, who camped near the creeks and gullies of the area now known as Bellbird Dell. Read More

First settled by Europeans in the 1840s, originally “Blackburn Creek” was a staging post on the way to Lilydale, centred on the Travellers’ Rest Hotel (erected 1861). Read More