Rosebud history

Allotment 18 (west to Jetty Road) became the property of Charles BLAKEY and then Robert White, after 18 February 1874, when the 152.5 acre allotment was advertised in the Argus.

William Gomm was farming it in 1876 but returned to fishing when subdivision began.

As this was the only block separately owned for decades, it had to be Lot 86, which William Edwards mortgaged to Captain Adams in August 1878.

In the Argus of 12 March 1883, the Government advertised land in the village of Wannaeue on allotment 20, Wannaeue.

A school began operating in 1884 and moved into purpose-built premises three years later.

When a pier was finally built in 1888, it failed to extend into the deep water, so ferries and passenger ships from the metropolis had to dock at Dromana, a larger town about eight kilometers to the north.

The Post Office then opened on 27 March 1889.

Isobel Moresby said that Jack Jones had built a store on the corner in about 1900 but it was built about a decade earlier just after the Lake v Jones case.

Walter and Charlie Burnham, fishermen from Sorrento, were two early purchasers on the estate in about 1914.(See Steve Burnam's website for Vin Burnham's story of the early days.)

By 1930 Hindhope Park was operating on the site of Rosebud Plaza.

The first pub (the Rosebud Hotel) wasn't built until 1939-40.