Everything about Harvey Western Australia totally explained
Harvey is a town located in the
South West of
Western Australia along the
South Western Highway, between
Pinjarra and
Bunbury. It has a population of 4,215.
History
Origin of the name
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.
History
According to Dr
James Battye, Stirling selected known as Wellington Location 50A and established the Harvey River Settlement. The only improvement he made to the land, as far as it's 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 didn't occur until 1938.
In February 2006, EG Green & Sons, the owner of the Harvey Beef brand since 1919 and responsible for about 90% of Western Australia's beef exports, went into administration. In April, however, the brand was rescued by a new consortium who acquired EG Green & Sons and recreated it as Harvey Industries.
Present day
The town is located on
South Western Highway, 140 km south of Perth on the south bank of the
Harvey River, has a population of 4,215, about 12% of whom are
Italian Australians, and is the seat of the
Shire of Harvey and is the centre of the Western Australian dairy industry. It contains an agricultural college and the headquarters of both the
Harvey Fresh
(1986) and Harvey Beef (1919) brand names, and each year in October hosts an agricultural show. In addition, a high school, a primary school, shopping facilities, accommodation (hotel, motel, caravan park), council offices and the Forest Products' Commission's Timber Technology Centre are located within the town.
The railway station contains a museum which documents early life in the town, and the Stirling Cottage (actually a replica of it built 500 m downstream from the original in 1994 after the original cottage succumbed to the elements in the 1960s) has been converted into a tourist information centre and tearooms. An unusual feature is the Italian Internment Shrine, built by Italian internees of Harvey No.11 Camp during World War II and believed to be one of the only monuments of its kind in existence.
Transport
The main road route through the area is
South Western Highway (Route 20; Perth to Bunbury via Pinjarra and Waroona). Uduc Road, the town's main street, goes to
Old Coast Road near
Myalup. Harvey also serves as a stop on the
Australind passenger train from
Perth to
Bunbury.
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