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Forest Grove, Western Australia

locality in Western Australia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ21890835 ↗
Source-derived summary

Forest Grove is a locality in the South West region of Western Australia in the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River.

Forest Grove had a school named Nuralingup, which opened as part of the Group Settlement Scheme in 1923, with future premier John Tonkin as the first head teacher.

During the 1930s there was an organisation known as the Forest Grove and Districts Agricultural Society.

The school was renamed to Forest Grove in 1928 and closed in 1962.

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The public source identifies “Forest Grove, Western Australia” as locality in Western Australia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Forest, Grove and Western.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 1928, 1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Forest, Grove and Western providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Forest Grove, Western Australia”, the useful work is to connect “locality in Western Australia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21890835. Authority coordinates are -34.067, 115.083. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1923, 1928 and 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “Forest Grove, Western Australia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.