Up until the Chiaching reign period (1796-1819), a person from Ch'uanchow by the name of Su Shih-wei led 44 people to cultivate the area, and then in 1827 brought an idol of a god named Fa Chu Kung from Ch'uanchou to Taiwan in order to expel any disease from the area.
直到嘉慶年間，泉州人氏蘇士尾率鄉勇四十四人至此墾荒，並於道光七年（西元一八二七年），由泉州府請法主公來鎮壓蠻荒瘴癘。後人懷念蘇士尾拓殖功勳，於是取其姓「蘇」與港「澳」相連，而稱蘇澳。