This Day in History: 1851-07-22

Resident Magistrate Joseph Strelley Harris chaired a public meeting at James Sinclair’s Bush Inn, near the Avon River ford on Sinclair’s  property Dumbarton,  to discuss the need for a district church in old Toodyay and also a chapel on a piece of land provide by Charles Pratt in the Northam district. Sites for both were determined. Pratt owned Buckland (Avon Location W) at that time.

Sources:
Perth gazette, 18 July 1851, p.2; 19 Sept. 1851, p.2.
Rica Erickson & Robyn Taylor. Toodyay homesteads. Hesperian Press, 2006, p.50.
Rica Erickson. Old Toodyay and Newcastle. Toodyay Shire Council, 1974, p.43.