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The Shire of Harvey has secured $40,000 under the State Government’s 2022-23 Heritage Grants Program to improve local historical sites.
The Shire of Harvey has secured $40,000 under the State Government’s 2022-23 Heritage Grants Program to improve local historical sites. The grant includes $20,000 for the Harvey Internment Camp Shrine and Old Prison and $20,000 for the Australind and Harvey Heritage Trails Interpretive Project. The money, alongside funding from the Shire of Harvey’s Tourism Budget, will pay for interpretative signage at these sites. The $20,000 grant for the Harvey Internment Camp Shrine and Old Prison will help tell the story of Camp 11, where more than 1000 people of German and Italian descent were interned during World War 2. Meanwhile, the $20,000 grant for the Australind and Harvey Heritage Trails Interpretive Project will reinvigorate original trails created in the 1990s to showcase architectural and cultural history. The new signage will uplift the rich Noongar, British and European history of the region.
Both sites feature in the Harvey Tourism Road Map 2031 and are being developed to attract more visitors to the Harvey region.