East Rockingham is an

industrial suburb An industrial suburb is a community, near a large city, with an industrial economy. These communities may be established as tax havens or as places where zoning promotes industry, or they may be industrial towns that become suburbs by urban spra ...

within the Kwinana Industrial Area, part of

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, and located within the

City of Rockingham The City of Rockingham is a council and local government area, comprising the south coastal suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth. History Rockingham is located in the southern part of the traditional tribal territory of the ...

History

The suburb developed as a rural community in the 1850s when various pioneers took up land and settled in the area along

Mandurah Road Mandurah Road is the name given to two roads in the cities of Perth and Mandurah, Western Australia, which link together at Stakehill Road, Karnup. Route description The northern part starts in the Kwinana Beach industrial area. After 2&nb ...

; however, the community declined following the opening of the port at Rockingham in 1872. The Rockingham Road Board's offices were located in East Rockingham between 1905 and 1929. The Stephenson- Hepburn Plan for Perth and Fremantle (1955) identified the strategic importance of the locality for industrial development. The suburb today contains various industrial developments, with

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making plans to release more land for industrial purposes. The

Water Corporation Water Corporation is the principal supplier of water, wastewater and drainage services throughout the state of Western Australia. It is the seventh successive agency to deal with the services in Perth, Western Australia. With offices in Perth ...

intends to construct a wastewater treatment facility in East Rockingham. The suburb was named Challenger for a period between 1992 and 1996. It is home to two caravan parks.

Places of natural and cultural heritage significance

As of 2020, 113 places are heritage-listed in the City of Rockingham, of which seven are on the State Register of Heritage Places, with five of those located in East Rockingham. Significant places: * The Pines and Paradise (ruins, sites of farm cottages) * Mona's Mount ( Key Cottage) - farm cottage * Wheatfields - former farm cottage * Smirk's Cottage - former farm cottage * Sloan's Cottage - former farm cottage. * WW2 coastal defence bunker * East Rockingham School site * East Rockingham Roads Board office site * East Rockingham Pioneer Cemetery * Hymus house and dairy *

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(ruin) and dairy (ruin) * Woodbine (a.k.a. Bell's Cottage) ruin * Sam Chalwell's house site * Ellendale (a.k.a. Day Cottage) * Old Abattoir (ruin) * Lealholm (ruin) *

Lake Cooloongup Lake Cooloongup, sometimes also referred to as White Lake, is a shallow saline lake in the suburb of Cooloongup, south of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It is part of Rockingham Lakes Regional Park. I ...

Flora and Fauna Reserve

References

{{Suburbs of Rockingham Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the City of Rockingham