Mount Keira - Timeline
| 1815 | Cedar Getters in the Mount Keira Locality |
| 1818 | Allan Cunningham, Botanist, climbs Mount Keira |
| 1835 | Mount Keira Road formed |
| 1849 | James Shoobert opens the "Albert" coal mine |
| 1856 | Mount Keira house and lands sold |
| 1856 | Three Mount Keira properties sold - Brightenville, Kelvin Grove and Mount Pleasant |
| 1857 | Osborne Wallsend coal mine opened on present site at Mount Keira. First Osborne Wallsend coal tested in steamer "Illawarra" |
| 1858 | Peter Murphy grows Egyptian wheat at Mount Keira |
| 1860 | Mount Keira Tramway Act passed |
| 1861 | First National School below the mine opened in an old house, was also known as the 'Slack Heap School'. |
| 1871 | Steam sawmill at Goondarin Creek |
| 1876 | Mount Keira miners advocate railway to Sydney |
| 1877 | New school premises built. |
| 1887 | Railway Sydney to Wollongong completed |
| 1889 | Wesleyan Church built to replace two others |
| 1890 | T. Shipton builds first two storey house at Mount Keira |
| 1904 | Telephone to Mount Keira Post Office. |
| 1904 | Airshaft to mine completed |
| 1907 | School of Arts built |
| 1911 | First motor car at Mount Keira |
| 1917 | Robertsons Look Out opened |
| 1918 | First motor bus at Mount Keira (A.S. Brown) |
| 1924 | Electric light at Mount Keira |
| 1929 | Post Office Store destroyed by fire |
| 1937 | Australian Iron & Steel (AIS) purchased Osborne Wallsend Colliery |
| 1939 | Church destroyed by gale |
| 1940 | Mount Keira Scout Camp opened |
| 1942 | Diesel loco used underground at Mount Keira Mine. First in Australia |
| 1946 | Digger’s Rest home for twenty four RSL veterans is opened. |
| 1954 | Wollongong Rotary make an attempt to open Mount Keira Summit to the public |
| 1955 | The Osborne-Wallsend colliery (known locally as Mt. Keira) changed its name to Kemira Colliery - a combination of Kembla & Keira. |
| 1957 | AIS donate remainder of Mount Keira Summit Park |
| 1959 | Keira Sportsground officially opened |
| 1959 | Official opening of Queen Elizabeth Drive and Mount Keira Summit Park. Saturday 23rd May, 1959 at 3pm. |
| 1961 | Mt Keira Public School centenary. |
| 1963 | New eight bedroom wing opened at Digger’s Rest home. |
| 1982 | A sixteen day ‘sit-in’ at Kemira colliery after 189 retrenchments is unsuccessful. |
| 1990 | A $15M upgrade for Mt Keira Summit park is announced. |
| 1991 | Kemira colliery closed permanently. |
| 1999 | Mount Keira lookout restaurant, the Mountain Top, opens. |
| 2005 | Refurbishments at Mount Keira lookout open, after works undertaken by Council and the local Rotary club. |
| 2006 | Council adopts a new flood management plan for the Allan’s Creek catchment area. |
| 2007 |
Rock falls on the cliff face at Mount Keira prompt geo-technical investigations by the National Parks and Wildlife Service. |
Last Modified: 22/08/2008
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