[7] A more permanent school building was slowly constructed over several years, and finally opened on 2 February 1862; Wynd suggests that poverty on the part of the local population had meant that further work was only done when funds became available.

[10] Gnarwarre State School would outlive the remainder of the village, but closed and opened numerous times with changing student numbers.

[8] Wynd, writing in 1992, states that some of Gnarwarre's buildings survived until the 1960s, but that a motorist would see "absolutely nothing to recall the existence of Shankhill/Gnarwarre.

"[9] There were also three unsuccessful attempts at founding other settlements within the modern Gnarwarre locality: Lanark, Barwon, and Pollocksford.

Lanark was advertised as being at the junction of what is now Mount Pollock Road at Gnarwarre; a street pattern was laid out, and a land auction took place on 23 January 1854.

[12] Pollocksford, straddling the Barwon River in modern Gnarwarre and Murgheboluc, was marked for a settlement, and an Anglican school was proposed there in the 1860s, but was never built.

[17] Graeme Lloyd, the first Australian to play in a winning World Series baseball team, was raised in Gnarwarre.