City of Casey Thematic Environmental History (Post European Contact) December 2004 © CITY OF CASEY. Report Prepared by Project Team: Context Pty Ltd Chris Johnston, Principal Consultant 22 Merri Street, Brunswick 3056 David Helms, Senior Consultant Phone 03 9380 6933 Karen Olsen, Senior Consultant Facsimile 03 9380 4066 Katrina Dernelley, Consultant Email
[email protected] Jeremy Ash, Consultant Fiona Gruber, Historian Project Steering Committee • Ms Claire Sandell - Local History Officer from Casey Cardinia Library Corporation. • Mr Ian Good - A founder member of the Casey Cardinia Branch of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). • Ms Rosemary Mynard - A member of the Cranbourne Shire Historical Society. • Ms Richa Swarup – Senior Strategic Planner, City of Casey Cover Photographs: Courtesy, Casey Cardinia Local History Archive Collection & Cranbourne Shire Historical Society CONTENTS PREFACE VIII 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Purpose 1 1.2 Background 1 1.3 Historical Overview 2 2 EXPLORERS & FIRST CONTACT 3 INTRODUCTION 3 HISTORY 3 2.1 Pre-contact Aboriginal occupation 3 2.2 Early explorers 4 2.3 First contact 4 2.4 The Protectorates 5 HERITAGE 6 3 SETTLING THE LAND 7 INTRODUCTION 7 HISTORY 7 3.1 Pastoralism 7 3.1.1 Introduction 7 3.1.2 Early pioneers 8 3.1.3 Pre-emptive rights and associated early large freeholdings 9 3.2 Selection 11 3.2.1 Introduction 11 3.2.2 Early freehold farms and parish survey 11 3.2.3 Harkaway German settlement 12 3.2.4 The Land Acts 14 3.2.5 Village, Soldier & Closer Settlement 15 HERITAGE 16 Pastoralism