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Somerville

(3912, 55 km SE, Mornington Peninsula Shire)

Selectors moved into the Somerville area in the late 1850s, establishing orchards and tree nurseries. The first school and church opened in 1864, followed by a railway station on the Frankston-Stony Point line in 1889. The district remained one of Victoria's major producers of apples and pears until the 1980s. Recent local government city planning schemes earmark Somerville as a site for increased residential and commercial development.

Jill Barnard