Harvey, WA, 6220
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SeabreezeOZ
S 33° 04.815 E 115° 53.641
50H E 396774 N 6339272
The new post office building in the main street of Harvey, built in 1957
Waymark Code: WMCW8R
Location: Western Australia, Australia
Date Posted: 10/18/2011
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Harvey is a town located in the South West of Western Australia along the South Western Highway, 140 km south of Perth, between Pinjarra and Bunbury.
Harvey's name is derived from the nearby Harvey River, named by Governor James Stirling in 1829, soon after the river's discovery by explorers Dr Alexander Collie and Lieutenant William Preston RN.
Although not positively known, the river is most likely named after Rear Admiral Sir John Harvey RN. In 1817-18, Harvey was Commander in Chief of the West Indies Station - Stirling served under him while in charge of the HMS Brazen, and Harvey recommended him for promotion. Stirling named a number of Western Australian features after his former navy colleagues.
According to Dr James Battye, Stirling selected 12,800 acres (52 km2) known as Wellington Location 50A and established the Harvey River Settlement. The only improvement he made to the land, as far as is known, was the erection of a hunting lodge near the present town of Harvey, known as "The Hut", featuring a shingled roof, jarrah walls and hexagonal paving blocks. In the 1880s, this hut became the childhood home of children's author May Gibbs MBE. Stirling called the area around the town of Harvey "Korijekup", using the Noongar Aboriginal name meaning "place of the Red-tailed Black Cockatoo".
The area was settled slowly over the remainder of the 1800s. During the 1860s, Australind, originally the site of a failed grandiose settlement scheme, was the centre of the Harvey District community. In 1863, a road was gazetted from Pinjarra to Brunswick Junction, which was built by convicts between 1864 and 1876 - it was called the "foothills route" and later became the South Western Highway.
Harvey was developed as a private town in the 1890s by a group of investors following the opening of a railway station there in 1893. However, Cookernup, little more than a railway stop today, had a greater population, and had a telegraph office and school years before Harvey. In 1926 the Harvey Road Board sought the declaration of a townsite, but this did not occur until 1938.
(Above info taken from Wikipedia)
There is lots of things to see and do in the area, and is worth taking the time to have a look around.
State/Territory: WA
Post Boxes: Yes
Historical Significance: Yes
Current use: Yes
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