Kwolyin Townsite

Child Places

• 10826 Kwolyin Townsite School (2) & School house - Site of
• 10827 Kwolyin Store - Site of
• 00327 Kwolyin State Hotel (site of)
• 10825 Kwolyin Hall - Site of
• 10763 Church of Immaculate Conception
• 10824 Kwolyin Railway Siding - Site of

Physical Description

Remnants of the houses, predominantly pre 1930's, are in evidence throughout the townsite, in the form of cement slabs and plantings of jade, peppercorn trees and cape lilac trees.

History

The Kwolyin Agricultural Area was fully surveyed in the later half of 1906, by Rae Brown and Welsh. In 1907, Peter Hughes from South Australia, selected 2,000 acres when guided by Charlie Hine from Beverley, to the appropriate land. Hughes settled in 1908. The railway line from Quairading came to Kwolyin in October 1912. The sale of the first town lots took place on 28th July 1913, one day before the Bruce Rock sale. In 1916, Shackleton connected to the Goldfields Water Scheme and although it was proposed for Kwolyin, the property owners through which the 25 miles of pipeline passed, objected and it was not connected. Similarly, railway barracks proposed for Kwolyin were rejected and located on Shackleton. Shackleton progressed and businesses in Kwolyin moved to Shackleton. The Kwolyin Co-op was located west of the church, where the bamboos are evident. The Co-op only operated frokm 1914 until 1917 when it moved to Shackleton. A number of houses comprised the townsite together with the social, community and commercial buildings. The tennis courts changed locations a few times in town. It was first located near the church. It then relocated to the Sports oval then moved just to the west of the hotel. Kwolyin oval located west of the townsite. Evidence remains of the cricket pitch. The football oval was used until 1958. Polocrosse was played up until the 1970's.

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