Between 1830 and 1880, only two houses are known to have been built in the Bayswater area: one owned by Frederick Sherwood, and another by John Scrivener. Neither house is still standing. The oldest remaining piece of physical evidence of European settlement in the area is an olive tree on Slade Street, supposedly planted in the 1840s and used as a place for religious services. That olive tree is now represented on the logo of the City of Bayswater. Additionally, a mulberry tree cut down in the 1970s had 130 growth rings.