1893 - Around this time, the artist Frederick McCubbin set up his easel in the bushland surrounding
Blackburn Lake and painted some of his best known works, including "Down on his Luck" and "The Bush Burial". His home -where
he lived for a short time- was situated at Lot 52(no. 7) Wolsley Crescent.
Blackburn Lake was to have been the centrepiece
of a model township planned during the boom years of the 1880s. In the 1890s, the land boom burst, and the Freehold Investment
and Banking Co went bankrupt. The legacy of their planning - curving streets, tree planting and the Lake as a focal point,
remain today as an excellent example of the "garden suburb" concept of urban planning.
1903 - The Blackburn
Lake Paddock was first subdivided for sale.
