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Davis Park
The Fremantle Library page for street names reveals that the park was named for the Davies family, and that 'Davis' is a typo that has stuck.
Library:
Colonial settlement of the area dates from the 1860s. The land bounded by South Street, Caesar Street, Lefroy Road and Fifth Avenue was developed by Henry Maxwell Lefroy as a vineyard and orchard, known as 'Mulberry Farm'. The western portion of the estate was used for dairying purposes by identities such as Lane, Fletcher, Wade and Caesar.
During the 1940s Mulberry Farm was resumed by the State Housing Commission and 145 weatherboard and iron houses were built with timber imported from Denmark to house migrant building tradesman who were brought to the state to boost the Perth workforce.
Between 1978 and 1981 the old houses were demolished and the estate was redeveloped by the State Housing Commission to construct the houses that are there today. (Fremantle Library Local History collection)
References and Links
The text above appeared on this Fremantle Library Local History page.
Note that there is a Davies Reserve in White Gum Valley, but it is named for Cr Evan Davies, not George.
That part of Beaconsfield has been redesigned. The project is called The Heart of Beaconsfield.
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 26 July, 2017 and hosted at freotopia.org/parks/davispark.html (it was last updated on 24 April, 2024). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.