Dandaragan is a small town in the Wheatbelt region of

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. The Dandaragan plateau is the underlying geological feature of the area.

History

The first recorded land lease was to William Brockman in 1848; he had a land lease at Muchamulla Springs. The name of Dandaragan was first recorded in 1850 as the name of a nearby gulley and spring or watering hole known as Dandaraga spring. The word is

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in origin and is thought to mean ''good

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country''. James Drummond settled in the area in 1850 and established a farm. A police station was built later and the townsite was gazetted in 1958. Select Harvests unsuccessfully attempted to grow a large

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orchard near Dandaragan between 2010 and 2015.

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{{authority control Shire of Dandaragan