Roelands

Roelands is a small township nestled at the foothills of the Darling Range on the South Western Highway between Bunbury and Perth.

In 1893 a railway station was built to service the railway line from Pinjarra to Picton Junction. Initially the known as the Collie River Crossing, and later the Collie Siding Collie Siding due to its proximity to the Collie River.

Because of confusion with the town of Collie, gazetted in 1897, the name was changed after much public debate to Roelands after the nearby acreage that was granted to John Septimus Roe.

A school was established in 1903.

In 1916 a private subdivision was undertaken surrounding the school site.

In 1963 the subdivision was gazetted a townsite at the request of the Shire of Harvey.

From the 1940s until the 1970s the Roelands Farm and Mission housed Aboriginal children whose families could not look after them, and children who had been removed from their families by the government.