76-516: The Dandenong Valley Highway is an urban highway stretching almost 40 kilometres from Bayswater in Melbourne 's eastern suburbs to Frankston in the south. This name covers many consecutive streets and is not widely known to most drivers, as the entire allocation is still best known as by the names of its constituent parts: Stud Road , Foster Street , Dandenong-Frankston Road , Dandenong Road West and Fletcher Road . This article will deal with
152-478: A "hotel corner" from the 1890s, and contemporarily as "pub corner". Around 100 years later, in the mid-1990s, they were joined by a nightclub on its southeast corner. Frankston Brick Company was founded in 1886, by a consortium of local businessmen including William Davey Jr. and Thomas Ritchie—most likely in order to capitalise on the Melbourne land boom during the mid-1880s—and was later publicly floated. It
228-531: A 300-acre depasturing license for what is now the Frankston locality of Karingal . Liardet built the first permanent wooden house in the eastern Frankston area in 1847—which would later become part of his Ballam Park estate after the formal land sales of 1854. Davey later partnered in the cattle run of Captain Benjamin Baxter, the first Postmaster and former Clerk of Petty sessions for
304-596: A 5- metre version on Mayone-bulluk clan land, erected on Young Street in Frankston in 2001, and a 25-metre version on Wurundjeri-balluk clan land, erected on Wurundjeri Way in Melbourne Docklands in 2002, are representative of this link. The earliest recorded encounter of the Bunurong tribe with Europeans in the Frankston area was in early 1803, when Captain Charles Robbins sailed his ship
380-733: A Bayswater office near the station replaced Macauley. In 1998 Bayswater Village (at the shopping centre of that name) office replaced Bayswater. In the late 1940s, a number of German Templers (just released from the Tatura Internment Camp) settled in Bayswater and Boronia . Part of the Temple Society Australia , they built a Community Centre (1961) in Elizabeth Street and a Retirement Village, as well as Nursing Home Tabulam, in partnership with
456-490: A block bordered to the west by Bay Street, to the north by Davey Street, to the east by Wedge Street (now Young Street) and to the south by a public reserve (now Plowman Place and Frankston Park ). Philp's plan consisted of 29 standard lots , 49 suburban lots, nine country lots of 430 acres, and also reserved place for a village centre that would eventually become the Frankston CBD. The first formal land sales for
532-497: A four-lane, dual-carriageway road. It continues south to Dandenong , narrowing further to a four-lane, single-carriageway road south past David Street, changes names to Foster Street south of Clow Street, to the intersection with Princes Highway through central Dandenong. Running concurrent along Princes Highway, it resumes running south along Frankston–Dandenong Road as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road through Dandenong South and Carrum Downs , where it eventually crosses west under
608-622: A member of the Liardet family said that this was in fact not true. In the letter was excerpts of correspondence between the Liardet family and the Victorian state Department of Lands and Survey which refuted the theory. Instead, it puts forward the theory that Frankston was named after the Irish -born settler Charles Franks; who was the first European to be killed by Indigenous Australians in Melbourne. Charles Franks arrived in Melbourne aboard
684-473: A pre-emptive right to land license over what are now the City of Frankston suburbs of Carrum Downs and Seaford . Thomas and Grace McComb arrived in the Frankston area in 1852. Thomas assisted with the development of the local fishing industry , and Grace was the first nurse and midwife in the area. Thomas Ritchie arrived in 1854 and established a bakery that same year on what is now Nepean Highway in
760-548: A result, there is minimal physical evidence of their past. The Bunurong tribe in particular were mainly hunter-gatherers that maintained an ecologically sustainable tradition of travelling between areas of seasonally abundant resources . For the Mayone-bulluk clan; Kananook and Sweetwater creeks and the former swamps and wetlands of the Frankston area were rich sources of fish and eel as well as summer fruit and vegetables . An important meeting place for
836-642: A site for the Fire Station had not yet been established so the Brigade vehicle was parked under a tarp at the rear of a service station on the corner of Mountain Highway and Highmoor Avenue, Bayswater. On Good Friday 1970 a tin shed was erected to house the Brigade vehicle and other operational equipment. In 1973, the tin shed was relocated to a site adjacent to the Scoresby Road railway crossing until
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#1732793293126912-560: A student of Frankston High School at the time, compiled a history of Frankston using both local records and oral sources supporting the theory (published in The Frankston & Somerville Standard newspaper on 8 February 1930). The pub to which Charlwood refers was originally named the Cannanuke Inn and was the first permanent building in the Frankston area. It was built by the pre-emptive Frankston settler James Davey in
988-473: Is a residential and industrial suburb in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia , 27 km (17 mi) east of Melbourne's Central Business District , located within the City of Knox local government area . Bayswater recorded a population of 12,262 at the 2021 census . The first Post Office in the area was Scoresby North, which opened on 8 May 1882 and renamed Macauley in 1884. When the railway arrived in 1889,
1064-651: Is located inside the Mountain High Shopping Centre. Bayswater Station is located near the Mountain Highway , and is on the Belgrave line . Bayswater is serviced by the following bus routes: In the 2021 census , the following was recorded: Its most well-known reserve is Bayswater Park, where football and cricket is played on the two ovals, as well as netball and tennis, on surrounding courts. The adjacent playground, known by
1140-650: Is now the southwest corner of Davey Street and Nepean Highway (the present site of Davey's Bar and Restaurant) in the Frankston Central Business District (CBD). It was designed in the Victorian Queen Anne style and was constructed of bluestone and locally-made bricks. The intersection of Davey Street and Nepean Highway with Young's Pier Hotel (northwest corner), Davey's Bay View Hotel (northeast corner) and Petrie's Prince of Wales Hotel (southwest corner), became known as
1216-507: Is that it was named after one of its early European settlers , Frank Liardet, who also became one of its first official land owners . The Liardets were prominent pioneers of early Melbourne and arrived aboard the William Metcalfe from England in 1839. Liardet's father, Wilbraham , founded what is now the Melbourne inner suburb of Port Melbourne and the family established and managed hotels around Melbourne as well as
1292-483: The Cumberland into Port Phillip on the surveying expedition headed by Charles Grimes . On 30 January, Grimes went ashore at Kananook Creek in search of fresh water and made peaceful contact with "around 30 of the natives"—most likely members of the Mayone-bulluk clan. Another possible encounter of the Mayone-bulluk clan with Europeans in 1803 was in late-December, with three convicts that had escaped from
1368-503: The Champion from Van Diemen's Land in 1836 and made a squatter's claim to land on the western side of Port Phillip near Mount Cottrel (northeast of what is now the Melbourne outer-western suburb of Wyndham Vale ). Franks' land neighboured that of the early Melbourne explorer and surveyor John Helder Wedge , which was managed by his nephew Charles Wedge —prior to him gaining a pre-emptive right to land license of his own for
1444-429: The City of Frankston suburbs of Carrum Downs and Seaford after the formal land sales of 1854, and James McMahon purchased lands over what are now the City of Frankston suburbs of Sandhurst and Skye at this time. The first permanent brick house in Frankston was built at Ballam Park in 1855 and replaced the 1847 wooden house on the site. It was built by Frederick Liardet, the younger brother of Frank, and
1520-797: The Dandenong Valley Highway in December 1990, in the same alignment as the previous highways, from Wantirna South to Frankston ; however all roads were known (and signposted) as their constituent parts. The passing of the Road Management Act 2004 granted the responsibility of overall management and development of Victoria's major arterial roads to VicRoads : in 2004, VicRoads declared the road as Dandenong Valley Highway (Arterial #6090), from Burwood Highway in Wantirna South to Wells Road crossing underneath
1596-641: The First Fleet in 1788 and reached the Port Philip area in 1790, via the first European settlement in Australia at Port Jackson , claiming at least half the population of the combined Kulin nation tribes. Following permanent European settlement in 1835, another smallpox epidemic reduced the number of Bunurong tribe members to 83 by 1839. An influenza epidemic during the 1840s further reduced their number to 28 by 1850. The last full-blood member of
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#17327932931261672-474: The Frankston railway line (at the end of Dandenong Valley Highway) as Overton Road, then turns immediately south along Dandenong Road West as a dual-lane single-carriageway road, all the way along Fletcher Road, where it briefly becomes a four-lane, dual-carriageway road again before it terminates at Nepean Highway in Frankston . The elimination of the railway crossing where Dandenong–Frankston Road crossed
1748-405: The Frankston railway line in Frankston , while re-declaring the remaining roads within the corridor as Stud Road (Arterial #5796), Klauer Road (today Klauer Street, Wells Road and Dandenong Road West) (Arterial #5159) and Fletcher Road (Arterial #5974), and as before, all roads are still presently known (and signposted) as their constituent parts. In April 2024 the section of Stud Road from
1824-540: The Melbourne city centre via the Monash Freeway and EastLink, it is in the local government area of the City of Frankston and serves as its administrative and activity centres . Positioned on the eastern shoreline of Port Phillip , Frankston became a popular seaside destination of Melbourne in the 1880s. Its beach continues to be one of the most frequented in Victoria, and is recognised as one of
1900-725: The Pakenham railway line in Dandenong commenced in 1956, carried out by the Dandenong Shire Council , with assistance from Victorian Railways and the Country Roads Board , and completed in 1957, with the eastern half of a four-lane overpass over the railway completed and open to traffic in September, and the western half completed not long afterwards. The entire alignment (as its constituent roads)
1976-595: The Port Phillip District , during the early-1850s. Their run covered the majority of what are now the City of Frankston suburbs of Langwarrin and Langwarrin South . The fisherman James Oliver built his house on northern Olivers Hill around this time, so he could keep watch for schools of fish in the waters below, and after whom the locality is now known by its current name. The explorer and surveyor Charles Wedge also arrived around this time, gaining
2052-702: The failed settlement by Captain David Collins at Sorrento on the southern Mornington Peninsula . Among the escapees was William Buckley , who later lived with the Wadawurrung-balug clan from the neighbouring Wathaurong tribe of the Kulin nation for 32 years. After travelling north up the Mornington Peninsula for two days, Buckley describes coming to a creek that ran "near to the bay"—most likely Kananook Creek and Long Island in
2128-545: The foundation of Melbourne by Europeans in 1835, the area surrounding Port Phillip was originally populated by Indigenous Australians of the Kulin nation for an estimated 31,000 to 40,000 years. Particularly, the Frankston area was inhabited primarily by the Mayone-bulluk clan from the Bunurong tribe of the Kulin nation. The tribes of the Kulin nation were a nomadic people with no sedentary settlements . As
2204-589: The 1840s. The Victorian Heritage Database states that it was located on the present site of the Frankston Mechanics' Institute ; at 1 Plowman Place in the Frankston Central Business District (CBD). According to Charlwood, it was purchased by a "Mr. Stone" in the early-1850s who, after the birth of his son, "Frank", renamed it "Frank Stone's Hotel" and around which the village developed and also had its name adapted from for its formal land sales in 1854. As there appear to be no licensing records for
2280-635: The Australian German Welfare Society (AGWS). The Bayswater Wine Cellar is the oldest building in the region, erected in the mid 19th century to service loggers that travelled between the city and the Dandenongs . It was sold to a developer in late 2017. On 17 November 1969, Bayswater Fire Brigade was registered with CFA. The Brigade became operational in January 1970 and attended its first fire call on 22 January. However,
2356-518: The Bayswater Bullets Little Athletics Club which was established in 1968/69 unfortunately a similar fate befitted BBLAC as they disbanded around 2018/19. ^ = territory divided with another LGA Frankston, Victoria Frankston ( / ˈ f r æ ŋ k s t ə n / FRANK -stən ) is a suburb in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia . Located 54 km (34 mi) south-east of
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2432-836: The Bayswater Park Cricket Club; known as The Sharks who compete in the Ringwood District Cricket Association during summer and The Bayswater Strikers Soccer Club during winter. The suburb also had the Bayswater Netball Club that competed in the Mountain District Netball Association located in Ferntree Gully, the club folded due to waning participation in the early 2010’s. The Knox Little Athletics Centre also hosted
2508-563: The Bunurong tribe clans of the greater Mornington Peninsula region was the present site of the Frankston Mechanics' Institute , at 1 Plowman Place in the Frankston Central Business District (CBD), which was used for corroborees and as a trading place. Bunurong territory, of which Frankston is a part, stretches from the Werribee River in the western metropolitan area of Melbourne east to Wilsons Promontory in Gippsland and
2584-534: The Bunurong tribe, Yam-mer-book , also known as Jimmy Dunbar (from the Ngaruk-Willam clan, which was geographically close to the Mayone-bulluk clan) who lived to the north of Frankston near Mordialloc , died of natural causes in 1877. Fishermen were among the earliest Europeans to unofficially settle the Frankston area following the foundation of Melbourne on 30 August 1835. Living in tents and wattle and daub huts on its foreshore and around
2660-527: The Cannanuke Inn, it is difficult to determine if this is in fact true. However, Charlwood does mention that Stone had purchased the Cannanuke Inn from "a man named Standring". Licensing records state that Benjamin Standring was the owner of the Frankston Hotel from 1857 to 1860. Also, according to the terms of his pre-emptive right to land licence, Davey did not have the right to sell or sub-let
2736-399: The Cannanuke Inn. It is therefore unlikely that Stone purchased or leased the Cannanuke Inn from Davey or Standring before the formal land sales for Frankston in 1854—and after which the name "Frankston" was already in use. A more recent theory, put forward by the author and historian Michael Jones in his local history book Frankston: Resort to City (published in 1989), is that Frankston
2812-609: The Frankston CBD. The central Frankston area was surveyed by Thomas Hanbury Permein for the Victorian colonial government in early 1854. The only pre-existing permanent building in Permein's survey is the Cannanuke Inn. The plan for the new village of Frankston was drawn by James Philp from the Office of the Surveyor General of Victoria on 1 May 1854—with the Cannanuke Inn as a central point and located on Lot 1 of
2888-600: The Frankston Hotel on 13 August 1875 for £ 380, and renamed it the Pier Hotel (under which name it continues to operate). Young spent an estimated £3700 on improvements to the hotel, making it one of the finest in the colony of Victoria at the time. In 1879, following a conference of city councils in inner-Melbourne, the Frankston area was chosen as the preferred site to replace the Melbourne General Cemetery . The roughly 3000 acre Crown land site
2964-453: The Frankston area, and was located on the site of the present Frankston Mechanics' Institute at 1 Plowman Place in the Frankston Central Business District (CBD). He built the first permanent wooden house in the southern Frankston area located near Daveys Bay on Olivers Hill in 1851—which was originally known as "Old Man Davey's Hill". In 1843 Frank Liardet, the eldest son of the early Melbourne settler Wilbraham Liardet , took out
3040-442: The Frankston area, and his connections to the early mail services of Melbourne, it is plausible that "Frank's Town" became nomenclature for describing the area and its unofficial village. As a consequence it is possible that the name of "Frankston" was further adapted from it when officially naming the village for its formal land sales in 1854. However, in a letter to the editor of The Argus newspaper (published on 30 May 1916)
3116-512: The Frankston area. The correspondence with the Department of Lands and Survey states that, at the time of surveying the area for the land sales of 1854, the name "Frankston" was probably suggested to honour the Wedge's deceased former neighbour. Another theory—that has become folklore —is that Frankston was named after a pub named "Frank Stone's Hotel". In 1929 the author Don Charlwood ,
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3192-516: The Frankston area—where they encountered a "large tribe of the natives...armed with spears" but did not make direct contact. The number of Bunurong tribe members at the time of contact with Europeans in the 1800s was estimated to be 300. James Fleming, a member of Charles Grimes' surveying expedition in early 1803, reported observing smallpox scars on members of the Kulin nation tribes he had encountered—indicating that an epidemic had affected them prior to 1803. Smallpox arrived in Australia with
3268-550: The Frankston site, the proposed cemetery was abandoned—which was later established in the Melbourne southeastern suburb of Springvale in 1901. It was also briefly considered as one of the possible sites to replace the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum in 1887—which was later established in the southeastern suburb of Cheltenham in 1911. Despite not becoming the site of the new metropolitan cemetery, Frankston benefited from its new railway line. The travel time to
3344-513: The Mechanics' Institute to mark its first anniversary. The first 400 books of the new library were a donation from the banker H.D. Larnach . To service the proposed new metropolitan cemetery the railway line to Melbourne was extended from Caulfield to Frankston between 1881 and 1882. The first section from Caulfield to Mordialloc opened on 19 December 1881. The second section from Mordialloc to Frankston opened on 29 July 1882. The course of
3420-400: The Melbourne city centre was reduced from several hours by horse-drawn carriage to 90 minutes by steam train, making it a popular seaside destination for excursionists and weekend holidaymakers from the mid-1880s. Mark Young constructed enclosed sea baths in 1883, on a bed of granite located roughly 100 metres off the coastline of Frankston Beach, at a cost of £950. They were connected to
3496-514: The Monash Freeway to Heatherton Road in Dandenong was reduced from 80km/h to 60km/h after a number of fatal accidents. Two pedestrians had been killed in the previous six years, with the local council calling for additional safety measures such as a pedestrian crossing or overpass for access from the western side of Stud Road across to Dandenong Stadium . [REDACTED] Australian Roads portal Bayswater, Victoria Bayswater
3572-803: The State government through the Road Construction Authority (later VicRoads ). The Stud Highway and Dandenong-Frankston Highway were declared State Highways in March 1990, from Burwood Highway in Wantirna South to the Princes Highway in Dandenong (as Stud Highway), and from there to the Wells Road/Overton Road intersection just north of Frankston (as Dandenong–Frankston Highway). These two highways were fused into one only 9 months later, and re-declared as
3648-408: The area by Europeans began at approximately the same time as the foundation of Melbourne in 1835 and started as an informal fishing outpost supplying the growing settlement. It was formally established in 1854, when official land sales for a new village first took place on 29 May, and has subsequently given its name to its broader local government area since 1893. Neighbourhood areas within
3724-463: The area, Liardet had also worked on the cattle run of the first Postmaster of the Port Phillip District , Captain Benjamin Baxter, which was located over what are now the City of Frankston suburbs of Langwarrin and Langwarrin South . By the time Liardet had taken out his depasturing license for the Frankston area in 1847 an unofficial fishing village was also developing around its foreshore . Considering Frank Liardet's early presence in
3800-425: The base of Olivers Hill , they would travel by boat to the early Melbourne township to sell their catches. James Davey arrived in the Frankston area in 1840, gaining a 640 acre pre-emptive right to land license over what are now the suburbs of Frankston and Frankston South from Olivers Hill south to Daveys Bay . Davey built the Cannanuke Inn in the mid-1840s, which was the first permanent building in
3876-503: The cleanest in Australia. Due to its proximity to the north of the eponymous wine and tourism region, the suburb is also referred to as the "gateway to the Mornington Peninsula ". The traditional custodians of the lands on which Frankston is situated are the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation , to which it was an important source of fish and meeting place of the Mayone-bulluk clan for around 40,000 years. Colonisation of
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#17327932931263952-593: The coastline by a wooden pathway that led to a suspension bridge over Kananook Creek to Young's Pier Hotel. During this time, an article in The Argus newspaper on the growth of outer Melbourne (published 4 October 1884) describes Frankston as "going ahead rapidly" with "50 to 60 new houses...[in] the last three years" as well as having "two hotels, a wine shop, four boarding-houses, three general stores, an ironmonger, two saddlers' shops [and] five brick-yards". Frankston's Market Gardeners' and Fruit Growers' Association
4028-457: The entire length of the corridor for sake of completion, as well to avoid confusion between declarations. The traffic on the highway has been significant over the years with the worst bottlenecks at Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully Road, Wellington Road, Princes Highway, and Thompsons Road, but since the opening of the EastLink , the traffic burden has significantly reduced along the highway with
4104-413: The first mail service of the early township. Frank Liardet settled in the Frankston area in 1847, after taking out a 300-acre depasturing license for land that is now the Frankston locality of Karingal . During this time, Liardet built the first wooden house in the Frankston area—which would later become part of his Ballam Park estate after the formal land sales of 1854. Prior to settling in
4180-491: The formal land sales—establishing his Ballam Park estate on the land that he had a depasturing license for. There is a popular theory (published in the Victorian Historical Magazine in March 1916) that Frankston was named after Liardet due to his earlier presence in the area. Following the first formal land sales for the new village on 29 May 1854, on 12 December, Samuel Packham was granted
4256-465: The hall. Frankston's fishing industry was further developed with the assistance of Thomas McComb, who funded the construction of Frankston Pier in 1857. Following a petition by residents, to the Victorian colonial Department of Public Works, the pier was extended into deeper water in 1863. A gaslamp was installed at the end of the pier and a lamplighter was also employed. Frankston Fish Company
4332-521: The largest independent grocery chain in Australia—with its headquarters still located in the Frankston area. On 15 November 1873, William Davey Jr., grandson of pre-emptive Frankston settler James Davey, applied for the license to establish the Bay View Hotel, on what is now the northeast corner of Davey Street and Nepean Highway (the present site of The Grand Hotel) in the Frankston CBD. It
4408-550: The licence to establish the Frankston Hotel. Licensing records (and newspaper articles) suggest that it was located on what is now the northwest corner of Davey Street and Nepean Highway (the present site of the Pier Hotel). Packham advertised the Frankston Hotel as a country retreat, and employed a kangaroo tracker and organised game hunting expeditions from the hotel. Charles Wedge established his Banyan sheep station on his pre-emptive right to land over what are now
4484-742: The locals as the 'Train Park', contains a disused steam engine, which has been altered for children to play on. The suburb has an Australian Rules football team, Bayswater Football Netball Club, known as The Waters, who compete in the Eastern Football League . The suburb is also the home of the Bayswater Cricket Club, of which they are a member of the Victorian Sub District Cricket Association. Guy Turner Reserve hosts both
4560-507: The new village of Frankston took place on 29 May 1854. Frankston was gazetted in late-April of that year as being "well watered with springs ...the odour and flavour of the water being remarkable". The road to Melbourne was extended from Brighton to Frankston (now the Nepean Highway ) with bridges over Kananook Creek and Mordialloc Creek in late 1854. Liardet became one of the first official land owners in Frankston after
4636-541: The north–south tollway, opening to traffic on 29 June 2008. Stud Road starts at the intersection with Mountain Highway in Bayswater and heads south as a four-lane, dual-carriageway road, crossing Burwood Highway at Wantirna South (and the beginning of Dandenong Valley Highway), where it widens to a six-lane, dual-carriageway road (sharing a dedicated bus lane on-and-off) and continues south through Scoresby to Rowville , crossing Wellington Road and narrowing back to
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#17327932931264712-430: The present Fire Station was built in 1976. In 2008, the Brigade leased an additional building on the same site to be used for administration, meetings and indoor training. Schools currently in Bayswater include Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School, Bayswater Primary School, Bayswater South Primary School, Bayswater West Primary School and Bayswater Secondary College (formerly Bayswater High School). The Bayswater library
4788-584: The protector of its waterways and keeper of the wind was the trickster crow spirit Waa . Bunjil and Waa are the two moiety totems that govern the kinship system of the Kulin nation tribes. The Mayone-bulluk clan of the Frankston area was closely linked through marriage to the Wurundjeri-balluk clan of the Melbourne city centre area, from the neighbouring Woiwurrung tribe, based on this system. Two wooden sculptures of eagles, inspired by Bunjil , by artist Bruce Armstrong ;
4864-519: The railway line was directly influenced by the location of the proposed cemetery. From Mordialloc to Seaford it runs adjacent to what is now Nepean Highway—which was built over a 1000-year-old sand dune that once ran parallel to the coastline. After Seaford it curves inland eastwards to where a "mortuary station" was to be located (now Kananook railway station) near the border of the proposed cemetery, then continues to Frankston. Due to concerns from undertakers about sandy soil and underlying granite at
4940-515: The same distance east of the beach". Frankston Mechanics' Institute was established on the former site of the Cannanuke Inn, at what is now 1 Plowman Place in the Frankston CBD, in 1880. Its construction was funded by public donations, headed by a residents' committee, and supported by friendly and temperance societies including a Frankston group of Freemasons and the Independent Order of Good Templars , Independent Order of Rechabites and Manchester Unity of Oddfellows . Its foundation stone
5016-439: The suburb are Frankston Central, Frankston East, Frankston Heights, Karingal , Long Island, Mount Erin and Olivers Hill . At the 2021 census , Frankston had a population of 37,331. Its demonym is Frankstonian . The toponymic origins of Frankston are subject to conjecture, and of which there are four popular theories. One of the earliest of these theories (published in the Victorian Historical Magazine in March 1916)
5092-407: Was bordered to the north by Charles Wedge's Banyan sheep station (over what are now the City of Frankston suburbs of Carrum Downs and Seaford), to the south by Frank Liardet's Ballam Park estate (in what is now the Frankston locality of Karingal), and is now the suburb of Frankston North. Its south-west corner is described as being "about a mile [1.6 km] north of the village of Frankston, and
5168-447: Was constructed with a guest house which Davey had shipped from Jersey . Following a petition by residents to the Victorian colonial Department of Education in 1873, headed by Grace McComb, the first government school in Frankston was built on Davey Street in 1874. The No. 1464 Frankston School (Which later became Frankston Primary School) opened on 1 November of that year with an initial enrolment of 45 students. Mark Young purchased
5244-406: Was designed in a French Colonial Gothic Revival style by their father Wilbraham . The house is listed on the Victorian and Australian heritage registries through the National Trust of Australia . It is now managed by the Frankston Historical Society which conducts tours of the house and also maintains a local history museum at the estate. A site for a Church of England ( Anglican )
5320-425: Was founded around this time, in order to transport the produce of local farmers by steam ship to New South Wales and Tasmania, and the majority of trade for the Mornington Peninsula and Phillip Island, as well as south-west Gippsland, is also described as passing through Frankston. On 8 December 1884, John Storey Petrie was granted the license to establish a third hotel in Frankston, the Prince of Wales Hotel, on what
5396-401: Was founded in 1867, by a consortium of local businessmen including Thomas Ritchie, in order to transport the catches of local fishermen in bulk to the fish markets of the Melbourne city centre. In 1870, Ritchie established his first general store on what is now the southwest corner of Playne Street and Nepean Highway in the Frankston Central Business District (CBD). Ritchies Stores is now
5472-631: Was laid by committee president Mark Young on 22 March of that year, and the building was opened on 24 May at a cost of £280. On 16 March 1881, the Colonial Bank of Australasia (later the National Bank of Australia ) was the first bank to open a lending branch in Frankston. It was located next to Mark Young's Pier Hotel on what is now Nepean Highway. The first library in Frankston, the Frankston Free Library, opened at
5548-461: Was named after the heroic British army general Sir Thomas Harte Franks . The theory is strengthened by the fact that a number of places near Frankston also have names that are derived or adapted from those of British army generals and statesmen (such as Cranbourne , Hastings , Lyndhurst , Mornington and Pakenham ). Jones states that the Surveyor General of Victoria from 1853 to 1858, Sir Andrew Clarke , named all of these places. Prior to
5624-542: Was referred to as marr-ne-beek ("excellent country") amongst the Kulin nation tribes. According to the Indigenous Australian mythology of the Dreamtime , the Bunurong territory was created by the ancestor spirit Lohan . Patrilineally , all Bunurong tribe members are considered direct descendants of Lohan . The creator of the Kulin nation-proper was the deity eaglehawk spirit Bunjil , and
5700-525: Was reserved after the formal land sales. Located on the corner of what is now Bay Street and High Street in the Frankston CBD, the two acre site also included an area for a school as well as a temporary burial ground . A temporary hall was built in 1856 and served as both a place of worship and as a school (which later became the Woodleigh School ). The first post office in Frankston opened on 1 September 1857 which also initially operated from
5776-561: Was signed as Metropolitan Route 9 between Wantirna and Frankston in 1965. It was re-routed from Dandenong Road East and Beach Street through Frankston to its current alignment when the Beach Street railway crossing was eliminated in 1991. The passing of the Transport Act of 1983 (itself an evolution from the original Highways and Vehicles Act of 1924 ) provided for the declaration of State Highways, roads two-thirds financed by
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