Local Government
Woodanilling
Region
Great Southern
Ways Rd Beaufort River
Woodanilling
Great Southern
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 18 Mar 2003 | Category 3 | |
The site is important for its connection with the first European settlement of the area and for its association with pioneering families.
It is situated 0.5 km to the west of the Beaufort Station homestead in a flat gully. It is about 100 metres south of a Salt Spring noted on early maps. Originally a well, the seepage area has been excavated to increase the supply. The site has remnants of a windmill which later pumped the water up the rise to the homestead. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE The site is important for its connection with the first European settlement of the area and for its association with pioneering families.
The site for the new Cornwall homestead was chosen near a fresh water creek in the Martup Hills. This creek is remarkable in that it flows just as strongly in the summer as the winter although it is now more salty than in earlier times.. The Martup Hills with its rich soil was splendid grass and cereal land, but generally lacked water. The area contained several underground supplies - Dungarlar Spring, the Convict (Martup) Well, Salt Spring and two wells north east of the homestead. One of these (near the store) was known as God's Well - so named as it was the storage site for one of the Beaufort Station's residents liquor supply. In early times the large river pools of the Beaufort River were a guaranteed supply of fresh water for the flocks of sheep. However with closer settlement and fencing other sources needed to be found and the Martup Hills area soil was not conducive to water run off and hence dams were not very satisfactory. This well supplied the homestead needs until the 1970's - by this time increasing salinity necessitated shandying it with fresh water for garden purposes. While still suitable for stock water, the Beaufort Homestead is now watered from the Convict (Martup) Well on the Albany Highway.
| Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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| John Bird, Round Pool to Woodanilling ps 17, 263 | 1985 | ||
| Photos: 12/5-12/7 |
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