Jarrahdale Townsite & Heritage Park

Child Places

• 17808 CALM Houses
• 17287 Jarrahdale Heritage Park
• 08492 Buckland's Cottage
• 02362 St Paul's Anglican Church
• 08611 Jarrahdale General Store
• 08630 Jarrahdale Cemetery
• 08628 Jarrahdale School
• 08491 Jarrahdale Tavern
• 08622 Six Mill Houses
• 08489 St Maria Goretti Catholic Church

Values

The place was the centre of Western Australia’s largest timber concession established in the 1870s during the colonial era.

The place has associations with the individuals and groups who established timber as one of Western Australia’s chief exports in the colonial era and into the twentieth century including Govenor F.A. Weld, William Wanliss (and the Wanliss Company), The Rockingham Jarrah Timber Company, Neil McNeil (and the Neil McNeil Company), Rockingham Railways and Jarrah Forests Company, Jarrahdale Jarrah Forests and Railways Ltd (and its successors: Millars’ Timber and Trading Company Ltd and Millars Australia Pty Ltd) Bunnings Ltd, and the managers, sawyers, workers and their families.

The place was the site of and contains surviving evidence of the physical apparatus of a nineteenth century timber milling company town and community including mills, housing (accommodating management, workers, their families and single working men), railways and post office.

The place is a precinct characterised by a homogeneity of materials (namely timber, timber weatherboard and corrugated iron) and forms.

The place’s setting (the proximity of which to the timber resource reinforces its historic significance and the picturesque qualities in the Cooralong valley) contributes to Jarrahdale’s sense of place.

The place is valued as a home to a community established parallel to the timber industry in the 1870s some of whom also have strong direct and familial associations with the workings of the Jarrahdale mills throughout the twentieth century.

Physical Description

The Jarrahdale Heritage Park is located at the extreme southeast of the Perth Metropolitan Area within a valley of the Darling Range and is located approximately 30 kilometres inland from the coast.

History

The Jarrahdale Heritage Park was established under European settlement on the site of Western Australia’s first and largest timber concession. The original operation was founded by William and Thomas Wanliss, Peter Lalor and James Service who formed the Rockingham Jarrah Co in the 1870s. The Milling operation was subsequently owned by the Rockingham Jarrah Timber Company, The Neil McNeil Company, The Rockingham Railways and Jarrahdale Forests Company, Jarrahdale Jarrah Forests and Railways Ltd, Millars’ Karri and Jarrah Company Ltd and Millars Australia Pty Ltd & Bunning Limited.

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