The place, with an average temperature of 31 ° C in summer, has around 700 inhabitants and was founded in 1869 by 56 Sorbian-German settlers from the Barossa Valley in South Australia when they decided to take land that was given to them by the South Wales government approved. With 14 covered wagons they relocated in a six-week journey from the area about six hundred miles away. At first the place was called "Ebenezer". Since this place name already existed in the state of New South Wales, the city was later renamed "Walla Walla", which means something like "place of many rocks" in the Aboriginal language .
Walla Walla is home to the largest Lutheran church in NSW, which was built in 1874. The city also has the state's only Lutheran secondary school and St. Paul's College.
Walla Walla is the hometown of Walla Walla Football Club , a club of the Hume Football Association .
Every year in November, the "Walla Walla Heritage Festival" takes place on the second Sunday of the month.
