Near the present-day city, the Battle of Pinjarra between British settlers and the Noongar took place, in which 15 to 30 - the exact number is unknown - of the native Australians were killed.
In 1830, Thomas Peel was awarded 250,000 acres (approximately 1,000 km²) of land in the area from Cockburn Sound to the Murray River . The area, now also known as the Peel Region , was intended as new farmland after all of the fertile soil along the Swan River had been taken. In 1831 part of the area was reserved for a city. However, the founding of the city of Pinjarra got off to a bad start, as conflicts soon flared up between the Aborigines and the settlers. Cattle were killed, fields and buildings set on fire, and deaths occurred on both sides. With the murder of Hugh Nesbit, the dispute escalated. James Stirling , John Septimus Roe and a detachment of soldiers surrounded the Noongar and opened fire. The Battle of Pinjarra, often called the Pinjarra Massacre, would go down as one of the darkest and bloodiest days in Western Australian history. Ironically, after that, settlers and natives worked well together and in 1836 the town was surveyed and the land was assigned to the settlers a year later.
The city was often called Pinjarrup or Pinjarrah at the time it was founded, and it was not until 1880 that it was officially given its current name. The meaning of the name is controversial, for one thing it may mean place of the swamp in the Aboriginal language , but it is more likely that it derives from the name Pindjarup , a clan of the Noongar.
Companies
A few kilometers east of the city center is the Pinjarra alumina refinery with around 1000 employees.
sons and daughters of the town
Ross McLarty (1891–1962), 17th Premier of Western Australia
