 In March 1836, three squatters, David Fisher, James Strachan, and George Russell arrived on "Caledonia" and settled the area.Geelong was first surveyed by Assistant Surveyor W. H. Smythe three weeks after Melbourne, and was gazetted as a town on 10 October 1838.There was already a church, hotel, store, wool store, and 82 houses, and the town population was 545.