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First Settlement

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Albany Town Hall
Albany Town Hall
Albany Town Hall is an important civic building defining the centre of Albany.
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2 min
 Brig Amity Replica
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Brig Amity Replica
Full-scale replica of the ship that brought the first colony to W.A.
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2 min
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$5
 Old Court House
Old Court House
The grandest and most expensive country court house built during the gold boom.
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2 min
 Old Gaol Museum
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Old Gaol Museum
Built in 1852 as a colonial prison, now an historical museum.
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2 min
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$5
 Patrick Taylor Cottage
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Patrick Taylor Cottage
The oldest cottage in Western Australia, now a popular museum.
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1 min
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$2
 Scots Uniting Church
Scots Uniting Church
Scots Uniting Church is a Victorian Gothic style church located on York Street.
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2 min
 St John's Anglican Church
St John's Anglican Church
The oldest consecrated church in Western Australia.
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2 min
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First Settlement

Albany is West­ern Australia's oldest settle­ment with a rich and vibr­ant hist­ory.

Found­ed in 1826, three years before Perth, Albany grew from the humbl­est of beginn­ings, a single shipload of soldiers, settlers and con­victs, into a bustl­ing region­al centre.

Along the way, many of the early build­ings, and their artifacts have been pre­serv­ed, so you can share the stor­ies of those early settlers today.

Ex­peri­­ence life in the 1800s, con­vict labour, open­ing up the land to farm­ing, build­ing the ports and railways, the age of wind and steam, inter­na­tion­al ship­ping, coast­al defence, the over­land tele­graph and the ANZAC con­voys that left from these shores.