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131 Mile, (Arthur River, West Arthur, Old Thirty First, Wagin Sprins, Woagin, Mt Pleasant). - Police station

Placename
131 Mile, (Arthur River, West Arthur, Old Thirty First, Wagin Sprins, Woagin, Mt Pleasant). - Police station
Layer
Convict Landscapes - Australia and Norfolk Island
Link back to source:
https://convictlandscapes.com.au/australia/
Type
Other

Details

Latitude
-33.427804
Longitude
117.053553
Start Date
1862
End Date
1880

Description

Station to protect the mail carriers along the Albany Road at the place where they exchanged the mails. HCWA list states it was 'first built to house convicts to build the Albany- Perth Road' and later converted to a Police station. Pashley (2000, p57) claims it was built by convicts in 1862 to house mounted constables, but also records Arthur River/ Wagin Springs as having 2 mounted in a separate entry (although details are the same) Closed after 1874?

Sources

ID
tcfbb4

Extended Data

category
Admin
sitetype
Police station