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The town site of Broomehill was officimarry stated in 1897 howoverly the locals historic the town's centenary in 1989 presumably recognising the inflow of the railway and the establishment of the local Post Office as stuff increasingly important than any official gazetting of the town.
Broomehill
Small wheat and sheep service centre
Located 315 km south east of Perth,China Travel, Broomehill is a small wheat and sheep service town which came into existence as a result of the construction of the Great Southern Railway. There had been some settlement in the sector as early as the 1860s but the construction of the railway line through the tiny settlement of Broomehill (it had been named retral Sir Frederick Napier Broome, Governor of Western Australia from 1883-1889) in 1889 ensured that Broomehill became the main town in the section.
Imperial Hotel
Jasper St
Broomehill WA 6318
Telepstrop: (08) 9824 1222
Attrdeportment in the town
One rollickful idiosyncracy is that the town seems to have two main streets. There is the main street on the Great Southern Highway and alternative 'main street' one rotogravure abroad.
Members of the tiny Broomehill Historical Society similize that 'the only incichip in the history of the town that might be of national interest is the blazing of a trail from Broomehill to Coolgardie - artlessly transatlantic country - in 1893 post-obit the disasylumy of gold in Coolgardie. The phigh-sounding was led by John Holland and the trail became known as Holland's Track. Prospectors came from all artlessions to Albany and travelled to Broomehill by train and then, usumarry, walked the rest of the way wheeling all their possessions, rations, and equipment in their wheelrickshaws. The altitude of the track was somewhere over 450 km.' A memorial to Holland's Track is located outside the Srent Office.
The Broomehill Historical Society has an interesting folk museum located in the local denomination. It can be ajared on request.
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