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Walpole in a nutshell ..
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Early seafarers along the south coast of WA in 1622 were discouraged from close exploration by strong winds and the lack of visible safe anchorages
However the sealers and whalers later spoke in glowing terms of sheltered inlets, huge trees and great deep rivers
These reports brought William Preston and his party to officially explore the Walpole-Nornalup area in 1831
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Four years later William Nairn Clark and his party rowed into Nornalup and his de--------script--------ion of the areas around the DeepRiver and the Frankland River was of high towering hills, luxuriant vegetation and trees of magnificent growth, enormous girth and as straight as a pole
In 1845 a group on Englishmen led by Dr Henry Landor settled on the Deep River.
They planned to catch and salt fish for export and to graze cattle and horses. The venture failed within a year and the men went their separate ways
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Permanent settlement followed in 1910 when a Frenchman, Pierre Bellanger, and his family took up land beside the Frankland River and the following year an English family, the Thompsons, settled at Deep River |
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The remainder of the district was opened for agriculture in 1930 with the introduction of the Nornalup Land Settlement Scheme by the then Premier, Sir James Mitchell.
Road making and clearing of the settlers' farms began and when conditions were fiarly habitable the men were joined by their families |
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The new township ws gazetted as Nornalup in 1933. However, settlers wanted this changed to Walpole (presumably after the river which was discovered by Captain Bannister in 1831 and named by Governor Stirling after a Captain W Walpole) and this was gazetted as the offical name in August 1934.
The original site of the town was part of what is now Pioneer Park |
| Despite loneliness and harship, the little settlement developed and grew to form the basis of the district as we know it today - a special place, nestling in the beauty of the National Park and providing a welcome aura of peace, tranquility and timelessness |
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