Collection: Local History Collection

From the earliest days of white settlement in Western Australia there was a need for more population; however, as the population increased so too grew the need for agricultural production in the way of dairy produce. The development of the Peel Estate as part of the dairying industry is looked at...

"I could not reconcile that a long family residency of the Fremantle and Cockburn area had not introduced me to the curious existence of an itinerant camp - on land traditionally a Nyoongar camping ground, along the beautiful stretch of wild coastline of Cockburn Sound and Woodman Point near wher...