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1 CE
~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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2
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
-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
- 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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5
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.
