Discover the history of your local area, or that of your family, using these resources.
The Frankston Library Service is an official custodian of local history items, collecting, archiving and making items of historical significance available for researchers and the public. If you have any items of local historical value, we would be interested in hearing from you.
Links for Local and Family History Resources:
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Access to some of these resources is limited, so please ask at the Information Desk or phone the library (03 9784 1020) for details about how you can access the library's local histoy collections.
Catalogues:Frankston City heritage sites:Historical tidbits:Library local history resources:- Frankston
- Langwarrin
- Local history collection
- Local history fiction
- Local history photographs
- Mt Eliza
- Mornington
- Mornington Peninsula
- Peninsula past times (journal)
- Seaford
- Skye
- Southdoc Heritage Index
- 100 years in Skye
- Call it Seaford
- Early history of the Mornington Peninsula
- Frankston: an outline of the district's early history
- Frankston pioneers: the McComb family
- Frankston: resort to city
- Frankston timeline
- Mornington in the wake of Flinders
- Kingston - image gallery and image catalogue
- Picture Australia
- Picture Victoria
Frankston's historic homesteads
This Frankston City Council page provides information and links regarding the Ballam Park Homestead and Mulberry Hill.
Frankston 1901 - 2000
An oral and pictorial history of Frankston, this is the companion website to the book of the same name. It is also available on CD-ROM for use at the Frankston Library.
Tell Your Story
The Frankston City Council's open invitation to tell your story of living in Frankston in 250 words or less.
Yarra Healing
This site provides information about the Kulin Nation, including the Boonerwrung people who were among Frankston's original inhabitants.








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