Deanmill, Western Australia One Place Study

Date: 1914 [unknown]
Location: Deanmill, Western Australia
Surnames/tags: One_Place_Studies Western_Australia Australia

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Contents 1 Deanmill, Western Australia One Place Study 2 Location 3 History 4 Today 5 Purpose 6 Sources

Deanmill, Western Australia One Place Study

Deanmill.

Deanmill is an old timber town a few kilometers west of Manjimup in the south west region of Western Australia. It was established in 1914.

Location

Coordinates: -34.260000,116.070000

Deanmill Map View

Postcode: 6258

Location: 5 kms from Manjimup

LGA: Shire of Manjimup

State Electorate: Blackwood-Stirling

Federal Division: O'Connor

The town is one of the few surviving old timber mill towns. Deanmill was heavily involved in the production of timber railway sleepers for the Trans-Australia Railway.

Karri Logs on Train, Deanmill

History

Deanmill was named after Alfred Dean, the first long term manager of the mill (and superintendent of mills), but was known as "Timber Mill Number 1" because it was one of three state government owned timber mills. As more people began working in the mill a township formed surrounding it.

Transcription:^[1]

...It was reported that the recommendation of the committee that No. 1 State Sawmill, near Manjimup, should be named Deanmill, had been adopted by the Lands Department. The name was given in honour of Mr. Alfred Dean, who was the first manager of the mill and who served the sawmills at that and in connection with other mills from 1914 to 1931, when he retired. He is now residing at Cottesloe.

Log Splitting at Deanmill 1920's.

Deanmill currently has multiple buildings that are heritage listed:

Deanmill Primary School

• Pemberton Timber Mill Workers’ Cottages Precinct
• Pemberton-Northcliffe Railway & Railway Station

Today

Deanmill's population was 405 in 2006. ^[2]

Purpose

• The current purpose of this page is to add the complete list to Space:No._1._State_Saw_Mill_-_Rate_Book_1937-1938 and then add profiles for each of the people in the list.

List compiled by Kylie Haese on 16 May 2021. Profiles still need to be added to wikitree or links to existing wikitree profiles added to the list of names.

• I would also like to learn more about the heritage listed buildings mentioned above and how the early settlers in Deanmill used those buildings in their day-to-day lives.

• I am interested in the saw mill and forrestry industry that thrived in the early days of Western Australia, and the men who worked in the industry. They were major contributers to this state, and what it is today.

Sources

1. ↑ PLACE NAMES. (1936, December 2). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 22. Retrieved April 23, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41256505
2. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Deanmill (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 23-04-2019.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deanmill,_Western_Australia
• http://www.wanowandthen.com/Deanmill.html?fbclid=IwAR3C9K0IWcm1KmycM7PhLdYsHMHCGITmaeTeafXOqxaXUiVofovHU94nnos
• https://www.wafcn.com.au/single-post/2017/01/19/Deanmill-End-of-an-era
• http://inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Public/Inventory/PrintSingleRecord/5abbada9-db38-4527-a8f9-d61ba7f1b383

1940s State Saw Mills G Class Locomotive No2 named 'The Hewer' hauling a timber train in the Manjimup and Pemberton areas, Western Australia. G Class SSM 2 was purchased from Beyer Peacock in 1911 and by the South West Timber Hewer's Co-Operative Society and entered service in Collie at the Lucknow Mill and later at the Holyoake Mill before being taken over by the State Saw Mills where it was transfered to Dean Mill. SSM 2 worked between Dean Mill and the Pemberton State Saw Mills and ended its service at Dean Mill in February 1967.