Goomalling, Western Australia

A small town in the central agricultural region.
Location: 45 km north north east of Northam
Origin of name: of Aboriginal origin meaning "the place of the silver-grey possum". Goomal is the Nyoongar word for this possum.
Brief history: the name was first shown for a spring found by surveyor Alfred Hillman & explorer Sir Henry Bruce Lefroy in 1846. Hillman recorded the area as "rich grassy country" and squatters subsequently moved into the area. George Slater was the first in the Goomalling area, establishing a property around Goomalling Spring in the early 1850s. When the Northam-Goomalling railway line was opened in 1902 the government decided to establish a townsite at Goomalling. It was gazetted in 1903.
Natural features: Mortlock River; Walyormouring Lake; Culbarting Rock
Heritage features: Gnamma (Aboriginal watering) holes, Oak Park.