Hawthorne was first settled in the late 1830s. The Boroondara Roads Board, the first municipal authority, was set up in the 1850s and covered a remarkably similar area to the present City of Boroondara. Boroondara is an aboriginal word reputed to mean place of shade. However, the Hawthorn Roads Board and the Kew Roads Board split from the rest of Boroondara in 1860.
The name Hawthorn, gazetted in 1840 as "Hawthorne", is thought to have originated from a conversation involving Charles La Trobe, who commented that the native shrubs looked like flowering Hawthorn bushes.
Charles La Trobe was the superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and after the establishment in 1851 of the colony of Victoria, he became its first lieutenant-governor.
The name Hawthorn, gazetted in 1840 as "Hawthorne", is thought to have originated from a conversation involving Charles La Trobe, who commented that the native shrubs looked like flowering Hawthorn bushes.
Charles La Trobe was the superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and after the establishment in 1851 of the colony of Victoria, he became its first lieutenant-governor.
The buildings are still there except that now there is a bridge where the train rails are in the original picture. The closest to the ladies in full dress is a chap in shorts and T shirt.
Other Victorian pages:-
Melbourne : Collins Street : Bourke Street :
Swanston Street : Elizabeth Street : Queen Street
Flinders Street : Princes Bridge : Spring Street
Auburn Road, Hawthorne : Main Street, Balaclava
Melbourne : Collins Street : Bourke Street :
Swanston Street : Elizabeth Street : Queen Street
Flinders Street : Princes Bridge : Spring Street
Auburn Road, Hawthorne : Main Street, Balaclava