Following World War I, nearly 100 settlers took up land in the area, which were cleared and planted with cereal crops, mostly wheat.

The town was a thriving community with five schools, tennis courts, a cricket club, Country Women's Association and Wheat Growers Union.

[4] The Westonia Road board held a referendum among the ratepayers to decide whether £500 of funding should be used to purchase the hall.

[5] In 1932 the Wheat Pool of Western Australia announced that the town would have two grain elevators, each fitted with an engine, installed at the railway siding.

The Great Depression and a succession of droughts took their toll on the area; by 1940 only one shop was left and the townsite was abandoned soon after.