1803 ? Flinders sent a landing party to North Stradbroke Island for water.

1822 ? William L. Edwardson in a small boat from H.M. Cutter ?Snapper? sailed between the Bay Islands to where the Jumpinpin Bar now divides Stradbroke Island.

1824 ? Oxley, in the Government brig ?Amity?, visited Peel Island, the sites where Dunwich and Amity Point now stand and was the first to sail through the South Passage.

1828 ? First Settlement made at Dunwich to receive stores en route to Brisbane.

1849 ? ?Bigge?s Folly? (Grandview Hotel) was constructed.

1850 ? December 13th, Cleveland proclaimed a township.

1859 ? First Police Station and Sunday School at Cleveland

1860 ? The first settlers were the Sherrin Family at Raby Bay.

1861 ? Cleveland Post Office opened with a once per week service to Brisbane.

1864 ? Sir James Garrick purchased 16 acres at Capalaba on which the original township of Capalaba was established.

1865 ? First Settlers arrived on the Russell Group of Islands and operated the first salt works in the area.

1872 ? St Paul?s Church of England was erected on the site of a saw pit.

1874 ? Moreton Bay Figs were planted at Cleveland Point by Mr W.E. Finucane.

1885 ? Cleveland Divisional Board was constituted (forerunner of the Shire Council)

1886 ? Peel Island was proclaimed a Quarantine Island, rescinded in 1906.

1889 ? November 01st, first train ran the line ? torn up in 1963 for economic reasons.

1890 ? The Wellington Point AH&I Association ran its first local show.

1898 ? North Stradbroke and South Stradbroke became two separate islands.

1907 ? Peel Island declared a Lazaret for sufferers of Hansens Disease (Leprosy). Lazaret Hospital was closed down in 1959.

(Produced by the Tourism Section of the Redlands Shire Council)