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Rocky Gully in on Muirs Highway: For Fast Facts on Rocky Gully, click here.
What is Rocky Gully like? Rocky Gully is a small town of approximately 200 residents on the western border of the Shire of Plantagenet. Blue gum plantations and vineyards are replacing more traditional sheep and cattle farming enterprises. Rocky Gully is the northern entry point to the Walpole Wilderness Area, which is an international biodiversity hotspot formed from a world-class network of reserves and National Parks totalling almost 363,333 hectares. The limited services in Rocky Gully include a hotel, service station/general store/post office, public conveniences and barbeque and rest area. See our Rocky Gully Fast Facts for full details.
A little bit of history The Aboriginal name for the area is Chullurup, meaning ‘place of the white ant nests’. The elders of the Noongar people held the area in profound reverence, considering it a place of such spiritual power, that it was perilous to live there. In 1907 the Plantagenet Roads Board proposed that 320 acres of land be reserved for travelling stock on the Mount Barker-Blackwood Road about 6 miles east of the Frankland River at a place known as Rocky Gully. Land in the area was subdivided in the 1930s and a site was selected for the townsite to be named Rocky Gully. However, the area was not populated until a ‘tent town’ was established as part of the War Service Land Settlement Scheme after WWII. By May 1951 there were 220 people living in the area, and later that year lots were surveyed and the town of Rocky Gully gazetted. |
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