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Caroline Springs 10 Year Anniversary
Click here to launch the digital page flip covering the last 10 years at Caroline Springs
Aboriginal occupation of the area goes back 40,000 years. Flint tool making and cooking sites have been found along our creek beds, as well as a number of scarred trees. A clan of the Wurungeri aboriginal tribe called the Marin- Bulluck lived in the region Early European
Settlement - 1800’s
The newcomers arrived from 1835 onwards, disrupting the lives of indigenous occupants, they and their grazing animals soon displacing the kangaroos and emus from the open plains
During the 1850’s some of the early pastoral occupiers of Melbourne's west, such as 'Big Clarke', built up vast estates through land purchases, creating a virtual pastoral monopoly, which hindered settlement and development
The region was still largely basaltic plains of open paddocks covered with small boulders, divided by dry stone walls made from lumps of volcanic rock or basalt, with few made roads, and few trees near a lonely house, red gums along the creeks, with views to ranges on the horizons to north, south and east.
1870's
Melbourne was amid a property boom with speculators using borrowed money to buy land, sub-dividing and promoting new estates, in the west.
The Braybrook Shire was created in 1871, stretching from Footscray to almost Melton. The district was dotted with quarries, small farms, hotels, small businesses (eg. blacksmiths' shops, bootmakers)
1990’s
The opening of the Western Ring Road in 1997 had a dramatic impact on traffic flows throughout the western suburbs.
1998 saw the commencement of the Master- planned residential development of Caroline Springs located just 22 kilometres west of Melbourne.
Ten years later, over 14,000 residents enjoy the benefits of living in Caroline Springs with wider, greener open spaces, natural bushland, manicured parks and facilities, sparkling lakes and meandering waterways. |