Pinjarra (Australia)
Pinjarra (: 1800 inhabitants) is a city in the area of Peel, in the south of the Western Australia.
It is located inside the grounds, on the Murray to 86 km in the south of Perth, to 21 km in the south-east of Mandurah, to 25 km in the west of Dwellingup.
The origin aboriginal of the name of the city is not known with precision. For certain its name would like to say " the place of the marais" , for others, it would be a deformation of the name of the local tribe: " Pindjarups".
It is close to this city that place had, the October 28th 1834, the battles of Pinjarra which opposed twenty-five English soldiers ordered by the captain James Stirling to approximately 80 aboriginals of the Pindjarup tribe and which made between 14 and 40 dead according to the sources among aboriginals.
During nearly seventy years (of 1913 with 1981), the acueillit city with " Fairbridge Farm" , a firm-school, orphans British who were sent there to learn the Agriculture and to settle in the country.
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