TOODYAY ROADS BOARD SURVEY MAP, AVON LOCATION 1954

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1910

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Overview

Survey plan in 3 ink colours, pale green, pink and black. On linen paper.
A boundary line is shown on the right of the plan being between Toodyay and Goomalling Roads Boards.
At the top left a reference is made to Beejoording Townsite.

Historical information

Likely to have been used by the Shire's planning department and then donated to the museum as an historical record.
This plan borders Shire of Toodyay map 2006.19. (Date for this map based on date recorded for 2006.19.)

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-37-2006.17

Item type

Themes

Material

Width

710 mm

Height or length

730 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Handwritten at lower right, "Toodyay Roads Board"

Contextual Information

On the 20th December 1917, the Midland Railway Company held an auction sale at the Freemasons’ Hotel in Newcastle (now Toodyay), offering 42 lots of Avon Location 1954, a block of 35,000 acres located about 9 miles north-east of the town, between the Goomalling Railway and the proposed Newcastle-Bolgart line. ( Ref: Newcastle herald, 7 Dec. 1907, p.5; 21 Dec. 1907, p.5., West Australian, 24 Dec. 1907, p.4, Rica Erickson. Old Toodyay and Newcastle. Toodyay Shire Council, 1974, p.347.)

Year

1910

Primary significance criteria

Historic significance

Scientific or research significance

Shire of Toodyay

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