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Dapto - Timeline
| 1830 | Surveyor Knapp was instructed to survey ten 100 acre lots for veterans on Dapto Creek. (This being the first recorded use of the name Dapto) |
| 1833 | George Brown received a grant of 500 acres north of Brooks Creek |
| 1836 | George Brown's property was put up for auction |
| 1838 | A Roman Catholic School was established at Dapto, it was the first school in the Illawarra outside of Wollongong. |
| 1851 | A Presbyterian Church School opened |
| 1859 | The Municipality of Central Illawarra was incorporated. In the first election John Brown, Evan Robert Evans and Henry Hill Osborne were elected for Ward 3. |
| 1870 | Dairy Farming became important, butter sent to Sydney |
| 1877 | A school building is opened for a cost of 1492 pounds |
| 1887 | Section of railway from Wollongong to North Kiama was opened and with it Dapto station. A new town began to grow up around the station. |
| 1888 | Marshall Estate - soon after Mrs Marshall's death in 1888 her trustees subdivided her land west of the South Coast Road from Cleveland Road to Unara Street. On the eastern side of the highway part of 'Lakelands' from Byamee to Werowi Street was also subdivided. |
| 1902/03 | Dapto was at its peak. In 1903 the Commissioner for Railways declared that Dapto was the most valuable station on the Illawarra line, its traffic being double that of Wollongong. |
| 1905 | Temporary collapse of the town due to closure of the smelting works. |
| 1933 | Dapto described as a rural service centre, a village with a population of less than 500 in 1933 with about 70-80 structures in 1938 |
| 1947 | On the 12th September Greater Wollongong was inaugurated to administer the areas formerly comprising the City of Wollongong, Municipality of North Illawarra and the Shires of Central Illawarra and Bulli |
| 1952 | CSIRO Division of Radiophysics set up adiospectograph and other equipment at Dapto to dissect the sun. Read more |
| 1958 | Dapto High School opened |
| 1969 | Hayes Park Public School opened reflecting the population growth |
| 1975 | Dapto TAFE opened |
| 1984 | Closure of St Anne's Catholic High School |
| 1987 | West Dapto Draft Strategic Plan exhibited |
| 1989 | Large scale urban expansion of West Dapto |
| 2000 | Dapto Skate Park opened |
| 2001 | Dapto Ribbonwood Centre Opened |
Last Modified: 30/07/2008
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