| YEAR |
EVENT |
| 1886 |
Mines department found alluvial tin deposits |
| 1888 |
Tin discovered by David Stinton |
| 1890 |
5000-acre timber concession established at North Greenbushes |
| 1891 |
Post and telegraph office was established |
| 1893 |
First school building opened |
| 1894 |
Greenbushes Club Ltd formed |
| 1896 |
Nelson Arms Hotel built |
| 1898 |
First freehold settlers selected land |
| 1898 |
Railway station opened at North Greenbushes |
| 1898 |
Miners Arms Hotel built |
| 1899 |
St Barnabas Anglican Church built |
| 1899 |
Police station built |
| 1899 |
Courthouse built |
| 1899 |
Adelaide Timber Company lease granted |
| 1899 |
Railway Hotel built |
| 1899 |
Branch of the West Australian Bank opened |
| 1900 |
Five head battery erected |
| 1900 |
Brookman Hotel built |
| 1900 |
Courthouse Hotel built |
| 1901 |
Greenbushes district gazetted as a Road Board District |
| 1901 |
Methodist Church built |
| 1901 |
Public hospital built |
| 1902 |
Kerosene lamps installed |
| 1903 |
Duke of York Hotel built |
| 1904 |
Roman Catholic Church built |
| 1904 |
Roman Catholic School established |
| 1904 |
North Greenbushes School opened |
| 1906 |
Private maternity hospital opened |
| 1907 |
Road Board office built |
| 1907 |
Anglican School established |
| 1907 |
New post office built |
| 1907 |
Exchange Hotel built |
| 1910 |
South Greenbushes School opened |
| 1910 |
Mining registrars office moved to Bridgetown |
| 1910 |
Welford Hotel changed to Shamrock Hotel |
| 1917 |
Gas street lighting installed |
| 1919 |
RSL formed |
| 1922 |
War Memorial unveiled |
| 1924 |
South Greenbushes School closed |
| 1925 |
Group settlement scheme established |
| 1926 |
North Greenbushes School closed |
| 1927 |
Courthouse Hotel dismantled and moved to Pemberton |
| 1928 |
Timber Corporation moved to Palgarup. |
| 1931 |
Private maternity hospital closed |
| 1933 |
Electric lighting installed |
| 1935 |
Footpaths along the main street sealed |
| 1935 |
CWA. formed |
| 1936 |
Main street sealed |
| 1937 |
Catholic School closed |
| 1941 |
Home Guard formed |
| 1942 |
Air observation post established |
| 1942 |
Sister Kate's Cottage took up residence |
| 1944 |
Apple-packing shed built |
| 1944 |
Group schools closed |
| 1945 |
School bus service introduced |
| 1949 |
Newton Ice Works opened |
| 1949 |
Duke of York Hotel dismantled |
| 1954 |
The SEC. came to town |
| 1963 |
Town water supply connected |
| 1965 |
Primary school destroyed by fire |
| 1966 |
New school opened |
| 1970 |
Greenbushes Shire amalgamated with Bridgetown |
| 1972 |
Bank of New South Wales closed branch |
| 1973 |
Catholic Church burnt down |
| 1973 |
New Catholic Church opened |
| 1976 |
South West Highway re-routed |
| 1976 |
Lindsay's shop closed |
| 1977 |
Police station closed |
| 1978 |
Bush fire brigade formed |
| 1983 |
Police station handed to school |
| 1987 |
Old Methodist Church destroyed by fire |
| 1988 |
The "Tin Centennial" celebrates 100 years since the discovery of tin in the district |
| 1990 |
Greenbushes Tin merged to form Gwalia Consolidated Ltd. |
| 1991 |
Uniting Church opened |
| 1993 |
Primary School celebrates 100 years |
| 1993 |
Post office closed |
| 1994 |
Telecentre opened |
| 1997 |
Cosy Corner closed |
| 1998 |
Gwalia Consolidated merged with Sons of Gwalia |
| 1998 |
Eco-cultural Discovery Centre opened |
| 1998 |
New mine lookout opened |
| 2001 |
Centenary Celebrations at Greenbushes |
| 2001 |
Tantalum Expansion Project at Greenbushes Mine |
| 2001 |
Underground Mine Opens |
| 2003 |
Underground Mine in 'Care & Maintenance' |
| 2004 |
Replica underground mine 'Discovery Decline' opens at Greenbushes Discovery Centre |
| 2007 |
Discovery Forest display & Discovery Theatrette open at Greenbushes Discovery Centre March |
| 2007 |
Town Square garden opens in August |
