Scots Presbyterians founded Dunedin in 1848, and the peninsula slowly became a farming community serving the town. The provincial government’s intention was that the lower ground on the harbour side of the peninsula become 10-acre market gardening blocks, while the higher reaches were to become 30-acre dairy farms, and this scheme eventually transpired. Two cheese factories were set up, the first at Springfield Farm in 1871—the first in the country—and the second at Harbour Cone, behind Portobello, in 1877. Some years later, five creameries were established.