PRIZE, RIBBON - KELMSCOTT TOWNSHIP 1830 - 1980
1980A length of blue felt material forming a ribbon for awarding as a prize. Printed on the ribbon, in yellow ink, is [KELMSCOTT TOWNSHIP 1830 - 1980].
The Township of Kelmscott was gazetted in 1830 and for the next sixty years was the administrative and social hub for those colonists who took up land between present-day Kelmscott and Byford. By 1835 a road had been surveyed from Perth to Kelmscott and within a few years roads to Albany and Bunbury were also marked out enabling the establishment of overland mail services. Kelmscott was, from this point, a key point in coach and mail runs between Perth and Albany and other parts of the southwest of the new colony.
By 1889, the northern section of the South Western Railway was constructed from Perth to what is now Armadale, and in 1897 a station was built at this location to service the sparsely scattered population of this district. In 1894 State Parliament agreed to the formation of a roads board which, in 1894, was gazetted as the Kelmscott Roads Board, later to the Armadale-Kelmscott Roads Board (in 1910), the Armadale-Kelmscott Shire Council (1961), then the Armadale Town Council (1979) and now the City of Armadale (1985).
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This object is part of a collection that represents the important role Agricultural and Horticultural Societies have played in the supporting, promotion and development of rural industries in the City of Armadale as well as providing significant social events that brought large parts of the community together to celebrate the achievements of local families, orchards, farmers and horticultural. Agricultural and horticultural societies have operated in the City of Armadale since 1897 when the Kelmscott Agricultural Society was formed.
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