The aboriginal name for Coochiemudlo means red rock.
On July 19th 1799, Matthew Flinders landed on Norfolk Beach, Coochiemudlo Island
During the 1850s, when Queensland was still part of New South Wales, all of the area from
Ormiston to the Logan River was leased to Joseph Clark. He ran cattle on the land.
Victoria Point was first surveyed in 1859 after Queensland became a separate state, and the first
portions were sold in 1860.
Coochiemudlo was surveyed and called Innes Island, after Lieutenant Innes of the 57th Regiment of Moreton Bay who was keen on exploring the surrounding countryside.
The earliest settlers in Victoria Point were John and Maria Dawson and Joseph Scragg, who
were farmers, and bullock driver William Nutt. John Dawson died in 1865 and Maria
married William Nutt. The house now situated near Wilson Street and Wilson Lane
overlooking the water is on the site of the first cottage built by John and Maria. A more
substantial house was built by Maria and William, probably in the late 1880s, and this was
extended by the Wilson family who lived there from 1916.
Other early settlers were the Colburn Family who were in the district in the 1860s also. They
had a slab cottage which was later moved by bullock dray to a site on what is now Colburn
Avenue. Daniel Colburn married Mary Clark, daughter of original landholder Joseph Clark,
in 1864.
