Local Government
Kulin
Region
Wheatbelt
Kulin Rock
D. Meikle's home (fmr)
Kulin
Wheatbelt
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| Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | |
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 19 Mar 1997 | Category 5 | |
The site/place represents associations with pioneers of the district, and with education and communications in the Kulin Rock district. It represents a way of life no longer practiced.
In 1909, M Healey took up land in the vicinity of the Rock, about the same time as E Reardon and B Nicholls. Some months after taking up the land, it was surveyed by the Government and the Bon Marche Drapery Company took up 4 x 1000 acre lots. Bon Marche installed Ellson as manager of the property. He was later known as Pa Ellson. Later the land was redistributed for soldier settlement, and P Meikle and H Evans each acquired 2000 acres, with Meikle taking over the phone exchange on the property where Ellson had lived. Peter Meikle had come form Scotland and work on government projects including dams. He came to Kulin on the railway gang during World War One, and took up Soldier Settlement land which his son subsequently took over. The Kulin Rock property was P Meikle's second property in Kulin area when he took it over in 1929. The family operated the phone exchange until 1969 when the automatic exchange took over. The property was the venue for the first school to be conducted in the Kulin Rock area, before the Kulin Rock School was built. The Assisted School operated between 1930 and 1935 when the new school room was built at Kulin Rock.
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| Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| "Kulin Chronicle". Vol 1 Issue1 | Kulin Chronicle | 17/11/1979 | |
| "Kulin in the Making". | Kulin Jubilee committee | 1960 | |
| WE Greble; "A Bold Yeomanry Social Change in a Wheatbelt District Kulin 1848-1970". | Shire of Kulin | 1979 |
Historic Site
| Epoch | General | Specific |
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| Original Use | Transport\Communications | Comms: Telephone Building |
| Present Use | Transport\Communications | Comms: Telephone Building |
| General | Specific |
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| TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATIONS | Telecommunications |
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