Garfield Community Centre

Garfield School No 2724 Roll of Honour Transcription Barker, A / Boase, A / Burrows, J / Burnett, W / Cock, J / Cantini, R / Devaney, A / Drake, J / Edis, E / *Gunnelson, I / *Gunnelson, P / Gunnelson, R / Gillespie, G / Jewell, Leeson, R / *Leeson, W / Miller,… Read More

Anzac Walk and Anzac Place

Anzac Walk is a 30-minute walk beginning at the corner of Kilvington Drive and Belgrave-Gembrook Road. The first stop is opposite the cenotaph across the road, and outside the National Bank. A compelling audio trail delivered by QR code to your phone delivers a totally immersive experience of Emerald in the Great War and the… Read More

Cockatoo Street Signage

Caroline Avenue Named for Caroline McBride. Caroline and her husband James had seven children, five daughters and two sons. Surveyed by: Lynne and Eileen on 29 March 2021 McBride Street James and Caroline McBride arrived in Cockatoo in 1903. They bought land in what was then known as Main Street. They lived in a guest… Read More

Pepi’s Land

Sam and Alice Pepi grew potatoes here on about 56 hectares of land. They were advised by the then Victorian Ministry of Agriculture to use dieldrin to control disease in the crop. When dieldrin was later found to be dangerous and the land contaminated and unsuitable for potato growing the State Government purchased the land… Read More

Fell Family

Fell Family plaque Transcription The Great War 1914-1918Lest We Forget Handsome was the soldier of stone,With rifle fixed, his aim unknown,Was he rmembering two brothers who fell?In Flander’s fields, mid Wars fiendish hell.Unknown young soldier, I knew him well.Lest we forget, his story I tell. When the war drums beat,And the War Lords cry.And brave… Read More

Emerald Street signage

Kilvington Drive Trevor Basil Kilvington (1905-1977) was an inaugural member of the Berwick-Pakenham Historical Society, and an inaugural member of the Berwick Bush Nursing Hospital Auxiliary. He was also a member of the Akoonah Park Committee of Management which was formed in 1952. Together with George and Olive Rae he established the Berwick and District… Read More

Gus Ryberg Hall

The Gus Ryberg Hall at Hogan Park is home to the 1st Emerald Scout Group – the oldest scout group in the Dandenong Ranges. The scouts moved from Saint Marks Church to Hogan Park in 1958. One of the first group of boys in the 1st Emerald Scout Group in 1923, Gus was honoured for… Read More

Hogan Park

Although there was no signage when we visited, Hogan Park was named in honour of Frank and Rose Hogan. Frank and Rose wre married in St. Joseph’s Church, Emerald in 1919. Born in Limerick, Ireland, Frank had emigrated to England just before the end of the 1890s before coming to Australia a couple of years… Read More