When was frankston established

Its lure as a holiday destination increased particularly after the electrification of the railway service on 27 August , which reduced average journey times from 90 to 62 minutes. Between these years, the area developed into a regional centre for the Mornington Peninsula and a playground for Melbourne's affluent. Frankston was the site of the first Australian Scout Jamboree in It was the only jamboree in Australia to be attended by the founder of the Scouting movement, Sir Robert Baden-Powell.

Several streets in the locality of Frankston South are named after the event Baden Powell Drive being the most prominent. The original grandstand used for the jamboree remained a historic landmark at Frankston Park for 72 years, until it was destroyed by fire on 12 February This was due to the establishment of small government housing estates in the area, to house the families of Australian Defence Force personnel stationed at the nearby Balcombe Army Camp in Mount Martha and the Flinders Naval Depot near Hastings.

The original novel, On the Beach, was written by novelist Nevil Shute, who lived in Frankston's south-east, in what is now the Frankston suburb of Langwarrin. Local folklore suggests that the town was named after a publican called Frank Stone, who ran a hotel at the corner of the then Point Nepean Road now the Nepean Highway and Hastings Road now Davey Street. However, there is no evidence that such a person existed. Plant communities include open stringybark forest and some remnant plant types which are now virtually extinct on the peninsula, including tufted blue-lily, rabbit-ears orchid, wedding bush and short purple-flag.

The reserve also contains 98 bird species and a range of small mammals including koalas, swamp wallabies, brown bandicoots and the rare New Holland mouse. There is a useful, downloadable Visitor Guide with a detailed map. Seaford Wetlands Located on Austin Road, Seaford, 4 km north of Frankston, the Seaford Wetlands is a ha nature reserve which features river red gums which predate European colonisation and a number of rare and endangered migratory bird species.

It is the largest remnant wetland around Port Phillip. The reserve features rare surviving examples of pre-colonial vegetation. It is based around Sweetwater Creek which was used by the Aborigines and early European settlers as a water source. There is a well established walking trail around the perimeter of the wetlands. The Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve Located at Excelsior Drive, Frankston North, this ha inland sand dune reserve is an area of remnant bushland it contains indigenous flora species which is an important habitat for small mammals, reptiles and amphibians.

The springs were once used by the Bunurong Aboriginal people. In the s about ha were planted with pine trees. A proposal in the s to establish sand mining met with fierce and successful resistance and it has now been zoned as public open space. Walking trails and cycle paths Frankston Waterfront Boardwalk Starting at Nepean Highway, the Frankston Foreshore and Pier Walk is a 3 metre wide raised timber boardwalk which stretches from Oliver's Hill in the south to Wells Street in the north.

It offers superb views across Port Phillip Bay. Frankston to Baxter Trail A 7. It is pleasantly free from traffic and its most notable attraction is the Langwarrin Flora and Fauna Reserve. Kananook Creek Walking Trail This 7. It is a delightful walk beside the creek and, at the mouth of the creek, there is an interesting public artwork on the pillars beside the Landmark Bridge which uses the text from the poem, I Kananook. It was created by Evangelos Sakaris.

It was created by Jacki Staude to honour a local hermit, John Maddox, who created a fantasy world of shells, bottles and driftwood.

He lived by selling his fish to the locals and he died in Peninsula Link Trail This is a major 25 km track which begins at Patterson Lakes and finishes at Moorooduc and passes through wetlands, parklands and bushlands. The Gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday from Entry is free. It is proud of the fact that it is an area of native bushland with untouched areas of heathland, wetlands and woodlands. The Australian Garden is notable for its stands of native flora and impressive sculptures as well as a rock pool waterway.

Amongst its fauna and flora are 25 species which are listed as endangered or threatened. The gardens were purchased by the Victorian Government in and designed specifically to complement the Melbourne Botanic Gardens by specialising in native plants and ecosystems. The official site notes: "Visitors to Cranbourne Gardens can enjoy a natural bushland experience and visit the Australian Garden. Facilities in the bushland include over ten kilometres of walking tracks, six kilometres of cycling tracks, a lookout tower, picturesque shelters, barbecues and picnic tables.

There is a range of visitor programs, as well as self-guided walks available throughout the year. The Australian Garden, completed in October , celebrates the beauty and diversity of Australian landscapes and flora and features approximately , plants from 1, plant varieties.

It was owned by Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and was left it is now managed by a charitable trust so that visitors could come and wander through the manicured gardens, pass through the bushland and around the lake and lagoon.

It has a remarkable story: in Keith Murdoch gave his year-old bride, Elisabeth, a small farm which she turned into a weekend retreat. It is an American Colonial style weatherboard house on a hill in rural surrounds, offering views of Western Port Bay. The Lindsays inherited the original four-room s cottage when they purchased the property from cousins of the painter Frederick McCubbin in So up to date was Pratt's supermarket that visiting Safeway executives from U.

Americanisation was much in evidence, perhaps most poignantly when 'On the Beach' was filmed in Frankston's vanishing country environment in , with outdoor filming bathed in fly spray to keep the bush flies away.

Retailing advanced further in when Ball and Welch opened a branch emporium, and again in when the Town Centre shopping complex was begun.

In the Karingal shopping centre, with a discount department store and 95 shops, was built. Frankston has also become a regional education centre. There is a TAFE on the site of the former technical school and before then the high school, and a campus of Monash University on the former teachers' college The Frankston Community Hospital was enlarged to become a regional facility by extending into parkland.

The residual land is the George Pentland Botanical Garden, named after Frankston's town clerk who oversaw Frankston's postwar transformation. In Frankston's retail precinct received a massive boost northwards with the drive-in Bayside Shopping Centre.

It has a Myer department store, several discount department stores, over outlets and over car parking spaces. Retailing was concentrated between the Nepean Highway and the railway line. The ambitious storey Peninsula Centre s on the highway north of Wells Street fell vacant. The Dimmeys store, also on the highway, was vacated in Northwards, at the gateway to the 'Gateway to the Peninsula', the Ambassador Hotel shared their fate, along with a miscellany of other unused buildings with Nepean Highway addresses.

Frankston was noted for highway derelicts, often involving costly demolitions because of toxic building materials. Once described by Barry Humphries as the world's ugliest building, the Peninsula was refurbished for 65 residential apartments and 86 service departments in Frankston has numerous public reserves, mainly on the city's outskirts.

In Frankston's north there are three golf courses and the large Pines Flora and Fauna Reserve extending to Langwarrin. A fourth golf course is to the south. There is a continuous beach from Olivers Hill to Seaford with a pier, yacht club and a life saving club.

The Kananook Creek reserve is at the mouth of the waterway. As well as the numerous State primary and secondary schools, there are Catholic primary and secondary schools. A cultural centre was opened in Figures from to are recorded for the municipality as a whole and are found under Frankston and Hastings Shire.