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E-mail: mail@mtdandenong.net.au Contac - Jurgen Rauschl Tel: 0419 311 395

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	The first white man to claim dominion over part of the Dandenong's, was James Clow whose land stretched from the present city of Dandenong to Olinda and Monbulk. He named his property after the aboriginal name “Corrhanwarrabul”. Other settlers followed and soon the whole of the Dandenong's was included in settler’s runs. In the 1850’s, the Dandenong's attracted the notice of many people with a botanical bent, including the famous Baron von Mueller, Victoria’s Government Botanist. In the 1870’s, von Mueller set up a semi-permanent camp at the Basin in order to make an intense study of the Dandenong's flora. The worth of the mountain ash was recognized by these early adventurers and some were felled for use as masts in the sailing ships of that time. Hence the name “Mast Gully” creek. They were soon followed by the timber getters splitting the logs for palings which were used for sides of houses or fencing material. A timber camp was opened at Olinda in 1855 and another at Kallista in the 1860’s, followed by one at Sassafras in the 1870’s. The timber was taken out by a track via the present Ferntree Gully to Oakleigh where the nearest main road existed. The transport was mainly bullock teams. During the 1880’s and the 1890’s the Dandenong's forests were decimated mainly as a result of poverty stricken city folk being allocated 10 acre farm lets in the Dandenong's on which to make a living.