• 1856 -   first German Lutheran families arrive

• Carlsruhe named in honour of Carl Ahrens, first settler

• 1864 - St John’s Lutheran Church built

• 1876 - First Carlsruhe school built

• 1918 - name changed to Kunden as a result of the resentment and hostility towards all things German because of the Great War

• 1930 - The Old Church School, then called the Kunden School, was built on land donated by local farmer Ernst Behn

• 1959 - school closed and became the St John’s Church Sunday School

• 1980 -  tennis courts and the clubhouse built as home for the Kunden Lutheran Tennis Club

• 2004 - property sold to present owners

• 2010 -  Old Church School B&B opens

The first day of school, 1930