Eneabba, Western Australia
locality in Western Australia
Eneabba is a town on the Brand Highway 278 kilometres (173 mi) north of Perth, in Western Australia.
History
Long before Europeans visited or settled in Eneabba, the Yamatji people inhabited the region. The name of the town derives from the local Aboriginal word for "ground spring".
The first European visit to the area was in 1839 by the second disastrous George Grey expedition along the west coast. Grey and his party were forced to walk through the area after their boats were lost. On 11 April, Grey came across and named the Arrowsmith River, after John Arrowsmith the English cartographer.
The next Europeans in the area were government assistant surveyor Augustus Charles Gregory and Francis Thomas Gregory (both attached to the department of the Surveyor General of Western Australia) and their brother Henry Churchman Gregory, on a public-private funded expedition to search for new agricultural land beyond the settled areas. They camped at Eneabba Springs, 14 km (9 mi) east of Eneabba on 14 September 1846, while returning to Perth from the Irwin River.
In 1870 the first settler, William Horsley Rowland, arrived from Greenough. He took up a 1,200 ha (3,000-acre) lease at Eneabba Springs and survived by shepherding, trapping horses and pigs, and living on wild game.
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