Ongerup

Ongerup is a town located 410 km south east of Perth and 54 km east of Gnowangerup in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The area around Ongerup was first explored by Surveyor General John Septimus Roe who passed through in 1848 and in the 1870s the Moir family moved to the area and began grazing sheep. In 1910 the land was surveyed into 1,000 acre blocks priced at 10 shillings per acre before the townsite was gazetted in 1912. A railway line from Tambellup - Ongerup was opened in 1913 to serve the growing agriculture industry and closed in 1957.