First government school started with an enrolment of 12 girls and 30 boys.
Eden Court House built 1857/58.
The first police station erected in Cocora Street. The Police fenced of the headland beyond Snug Cove for their horse paddock. A Chief Constable and two troopers were stationed at the Eden Watch House and their jurisdiction stretched from Cape Howe in the south, Bermagui River in the north, and the Monaro Tablelands to the west.
The Great Southern Hotel was constructed as the Twofold Bay Stores, a general store run by George Barclay and Joseph Teas.
Alexander Walker Davidson built a whaling station at Kiah Inlet.
In the Parliamentary session of 1857, the urgent necessity for constructing a new road from Eden to Bombala, the chief town of the extensive pastoral district of Maneroo (for the shipment of whose exports and imports Eden is obviously the natural port) ,was submitted to the Legislative Assembly. The sum of £1000 was, accordingly, voted, and Mr James H. Thomas, C.E., was appointed to survey the line and construct the road.
The Illawarra Steam Navigation Company was incorporated through a merger of the Kiama Steam Navigation Company, the Twofold Bay Pastoral Association and a small fleet owned by Sydney entrepreneur, Edye Manning. Originally, sailing ships provided the service. The first steamer was William IV, known as ‘Puffin Billy’.