The Original town lots were surveyed by J.S. Roe in 1829.

High Street, south side, between Market and Pakenham Streets.
At the end of 2022: former Bank of Australasia/former Economic Stores/remedy.

Hitchcock 1919, describing the situation as he recalled it was in 1869:
Next to Higham’s was the jeweller’s shop of a Russian Jew named Rosenberg.
Next door was a baker’s shop, kept by a Mr. Downs; and then a sailors’ boarding house, kept by James Freeman.

References and Links

Hitchcock, J.K. 1919, [[../books/hitchcock1919.html|'Early Days of Fremantle: High Street 50 Years Ago']], Fremantle Times, one of a series of articles on 'Early Days of Fremantle' publ. 21 March - 20 June 1919.

Fremantle History Centre. Look for the PDFs called:
Purchasers of Fremantle Town Lots 1829-1837
Purchasers of Fremantle Town Lots 1855-1879


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This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 2 December, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/lots/419.html (it was last updated on 16 December, 2022), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.