Tag: Midland Railway

• A Brief History of the Irwin Districts

  Situated on Arurine Bay next to the Irwin River are the historic twin towns of Dongara and Port Denison, the coastal settlements of the Shire of Irwin.In 1839, an expedition […]

• A Port for the Irwin District

  Situated on Arurine Bay, a townsite was surveyed as “Denison” in 1866, but was generally referred to as “Port Irwin” up to the 1880’s. It was later called “Port Dongara” […]