Augusta Pioneer Cemetery in Augusta, Western Australia

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Get directions Osnaburg Street
Augusta, Augusta-Margaret River Shire, Western Australia 6290 Australia

Coordinates: -34.32695, 115.16564
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The Augusta area was officially settled by Europeans in 1830 after the establishment of the Swan River Colony. New settlers who had arrived in Fremantle on the "Warrior" on 12th of March 1830, were hoping to take up land near the Swan River Colony but, Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling, knowing that all of the fertile land had already been taken up, persuaded the settlers to move south, to an area near Cape Leeuwin. Captain Molloy, a small military detachment, and about 30 settlers headed south and arrived in an area near the Blackwood River. The site was named Augusta in 1830.

The initial settlement in 1830 failed and by 1850, Augusta was virtually deserted. A permanent settlement was founded in the 1860's by a second wave of pioneers.

A memorial column in memory of Colonel Molloy has been placed where his house once stood.