Contents include: Aborigines p1,3. Explorers p2. Swamp p6. John Watkins, William Coleman and Hugh Brown: surveyors, survey p6. Squatters p11. Farmers Common p16. Selectors p18. Patterson Cut (River) p20. Railway, tourism p22. Floods p24. Drainage p27. Wetlands p28. Closer farming land settlement p30. Railway p31. Carrum Station p36. Aspendale Station p36. Chelsea Station p40. Seaford and The Hermitage p43. Edithvale and Bonbeach Stations p43. Mining boom (sand) p45. Appendix to the railway story: Frankston Station p47. Nepean Highway p47. Carrum schools p50. Carrum p51. Mia Mia Guest House p56. Carrum Mechanics' Institute p57. Carrum - Bunn family p58. Edwin Thomas Deakin: baker p61. Bertha Armstrong: memoirs p64. Len Collins, the visiting farmer p67. Progress Association p69. Severence Committee and the Borough of Carrum p72. Tourists, holiday makers p73. Fires and Fire Brigade p75. Seacombe House p78. Camping at Aspendale p79. Louie Dodd of Chelsea Town p81. Sport p84. The Edithvale Entertainers p87. Farms and racecourses p88. Newsagency p90. Electricity p91. Beachside slums p92. Joss House [public hall, Carr's Timber and Hardware] p93. Life savers, Chelsea Lifesaving Club p94. Bunyip water supply p97. Ernest Baker p97. Intrigue on the Peacock Estate p100. Patterson River Country Club p100. Golf course p101. Proclamation of the City of Chelsea p102. Duncan family p103. Doctors, hospital p106. Squizzy Taylor p107. Popular pastimes, recreation p108. Sewerage p111. The post-war development struggle p112. Street names p117. Chronology p119. Mayors, Councillors, Town Clerks and Engineers of the Municipality p126. Map: survey of the Carrum Swamp in the County of Mornington p131.