Wagin Western Australia
Wagin in Western Australia is one of the largest towns in the Southern Wheatbelt region. Not to be missed is the annual Woolorama, one of Western Australia’s largest Agricultural Shows. The event held in March regularly attracts over 30,000 visitors.
The first European explorer through the area was John Septimus Roe, the Surveyor-General of Western Australia in 1835 en route to Albany from Perth. Between 1835 and 1889 a few settlers eked a simple living by cutting sandalwood and shepherding small flocks of sheep. Land was granted to pastoralists in the Wagin area from the late 1870s onwards.
The town itself came into existence after the construction of the Great Southern Railway which was completed in 1889 with the town originally called Wagin Lake.
In early 1898 the population of the town was 175: 125 men and 50 women.
Saint George’s Anglican Church, a stone Federation Gothic-style stone building with a tower, was constructed in 1900 on land donated by Frederick Piesse.
The Palace Hotel was built in 1905. The two-storey Federation Filigree style building with large verandahs in located on Trudhoe Street. The original owner was Paddy. B. Durack who also owned a sizeable property east of Wagin known as Behn Ord. Significant extensions were added to the building in 1911.
Planning for the construction of the current town hall commenced in 1928 with tenders being called for. The estimated cost for the building was £6000. The foundation stone was lain in May of the same year by Sydney Stubbs. The building included a main hall to seat 600 people, a lesser hall to seat 250, library, council chambers, stage, kitchen and dressing rooms, and was completed early in 1929 at a cost of £6500.
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