The text:"Kiama's proximity to the Sydney markets ensured its early settlement. At least one resident arrived in the First Fleet in 1788. Kiama's maritime history, historic buildings and impressive natural landscape including blowholes, make it a unique town on the east coast." "In 1831, David Smith, originally a cedar-getter, built the first house in Kiama. By 1836 the residents petitioned the police magistrate at Wollongong requesting that the town be laid out. In 1839 NSW Governor, Sir George Gipps, approved the design for the village of Kiama and proposed that the price of land to be two pounds per acre." (Paid to the native people of course).
"The deepened harbour (Robertson Basin) was completed in 1876. It was designed to better accommodate the coastal steamers and other ships that transported people, goods and produce along the coast. The distinctive Norfolk Island pines along Terralong Street and in Hindmarsh Park were planted by the council in 1897."