| Pre-European Settlement |
Area inhabited by Bengalat balug (Clan) of the Wathaurong
Tribe |
| 1802 |
First European
explorers.
January : Lieutenant John Murray
April : Captain Matthew Flinders |
| 1803 - 1835 |
William Buckley the first European
living in the area |
| 1835 + |
Area investigated and surveyed by Wedge and Gellibrand |
| 1836 + |
Area occupied by squatters |
| 1863 |
Church services began in a thatched hut, then a brick
building that also served as a Sunday School |
| 1865 |
Marcus Hill described as a small hamlet about four miles
west-south-west of Queenscliff, at the head of a salt swamp draining into Swan Bay and on
a freshwater lake or swamp. The scattered population consisted of small
agriculturalists and a few brickmakers |
| 1870 |
School opened by Anne Higgison - in 1874 became S.S. No. 1370 |
| 1878 |
New School No. 2029 opened - originally called Queenscliff
Road School |
| 1882 |
 | Church enlarged and moved near the State School on the Queenscliff Road. The
church was subsidized by the Pastoral Aid Society, and Presbyterian and Church of England
ministers had worked harmoniously there |
| Marcus Hill railway station built. This was on Swan Bay Road and later was renamed
Mannerim |
|
| 1883 |
| Marcus Hill Post Office gazetted - later renamed Mannerim |
| Great demands on the well-established brick-making industry at Marcus Hill by increased
building activity at Queenscliff |
|
| 1884 |
New church opened near the school |
| 1886 |
Provision made for shelter-shed at Railway Station |
| 1888 |
Movement said to be afoot to have Marcus Hill Railway Station
renamed Paywit |
| 1889 |
Tender accepted for erection of railway platform |
| 1890 |
| Name of Marcus Hill Railway Station changed to
Mannerim Railway Station |
| Grigg & Kimberley called tenders for erection of a large weatherboard building for
bark factory at corner of Queenscliff and Grubb Roads, Marcus Hill |
|
| 1896 |
Ocean Grove Railway Station renamed Marcus Hill - later it
was called Marcus |
| 1928 |
Marcus Hill School operating part-time with Ocean Grove
School |
| 1911 |
Name changed from Paywit South School No. 3096 to Mannerim
School |
| 1925 |
Methodist Church in Banks Road and a public hall near the
railway station |
