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ROWE'S SAWMILL SITE

Location off Mill Lane WOOHLPOOER, Southern Grampians Shire File Number 483 Level Stage 2 study complete

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The site of Rowe's Sawmill is located on the south side of Mill Lane off the Henty Highway and at the head of Cattle Station Creek at Woohlpooer. There are few above ground remains of the Sawmill site, but a corrugated iron fuel depot building and the remains of timber outbuildings, including a chicken-house survive in Mill Lane. The only other substantial structure is the chimney of the workers' canteen, located about .5km to the south-west of the fuel depot. About .4km to the south there is a large dam and the remains of a tramway. It seems that the sawmill was located between the fuel depot and the dam. According to local tradition, the Rowe family , who had been sawmillers from the area east of the Grampians started the sawmill at this site in the early twentieth century. The site has high archaeological potential although most of the elements are in poor condition.

How is it significant?
Rowe's sawmill site is of archaeological and historical significance to the Southern Grampians Shire as a Heritage Inventory Site.

Why is it significant?
The site of the former Rowe's Sawmill site is of historical significance as a representative example of the now passed saw millers' way of life. It is of archaeological significance for the evidence it may yield about that lifestyle.