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The area was originally known called Sorell Creek, and was inhabited mostly by British settlers in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1870, the arrival of the first immigrant ships to Hobart saw a large influx of German and Danish migrants who settled in the area, attracted by the cheap land and an abundance of clean water. The settlement was proclaimed a town in 1881, and was named Bismarck after Otto von Bismarck, the then-Chancellor of Germany. With the outbreak of World War I, anti-German sentiment saw Bismarck renamed to Collinsvale, after David Collins, the state's first governor. |
