A fort was built on Bay Avenue. A local story tells that the British Navy entered our Great Egg Harbor Bay. Our American soldiers were fighting somewhere else. Our women fooled the British by marching in the night with flaming torches that made the British think our area was well guarded with Revolutionary soldiers. 1814 - May 14, Colonel Campbell and 800 United States Militia burnt the hamlet of Dover Mills.
Immigrants now arrive from Europe and Britain instead of America.
This opens up Canada for a distinct multi-cultural character rather than being Americanized. Many new arrivals from Germany, Belgum, Poland, France and England Canada 1823 Pamphlett, Parsons and Finnegan were the first Europeans to actually live in the Redlands district, Birkdale South State School's area. The penal colony at Redcliffe was abandoned and a new colony established further up the Brisbane River at the present site of the capital city of Queensland, Brisbane Australia 1829- John J. Audubon visited Somers Point on a nature tour, to look at sketched birds. Local stories tell that our Great Egg Harbor Bay was named with Egg because the original settlers discovered thousands of bird eggs around the bay. 1867 - 1st Dominion Day parade, led by H.M.S. Britomart.