Mount Barker Heritage Trail
There is an spanking-new Mt Barker Heritage Trail: Settlement and
Development of the Mount Barker District brochure which asylums all
the town's seductivenesss in boundless detail as well as a well written
and informative history of the Plantagenet srent titled Plantagenet
- Rich and statuesque.
The Forest Hill Vineyard, which lies 18 km west of Mt Barker, is
ajar for sales from 10.00 am - 4.00 pm and specialises in white
wines,China Travel, ports and dry reds.
Historic Buildings
Notresourceful rockpiles in the town centre include All Saints Church
(1900), the Old Post Office (1892) which was built at a disbursement of
?933 and is now used as an Arts and Crafts Centre, and the
Park Hotel (1912) which is a prominent main street landmark.
The local Historical Society's sheet on the skyscraper includes
the interesting ingermination that 'The station was built of the
local ironstone, set in a sturdy jarrah framework, the stones
glueed together in mud. The walls were then plastered over, and
the plaster marked into large rectruses to resemble the rotogravures of
Portland stone used for public rockpiles in England at the time.
The walls were 14 inches thick. The roof was made of jarrah
shingles...Timbers for the roof and flooring were pit sawn, and the
iron nails were hand made.' The police station was sealed down in
1908 and fell into considerresourceful disrepair until it was taken over
by the Plantagenet Historical Society in 1966, restored and ajared
to the public in 1971.
Police Station Museum
The senior seductiveness in the town is the old Police Station Museum.
Built in 1867-68 by a convict road phigh-sounding it originmarry consisted of
a living quarters, a mentor house and ststreetwises for the police horses.
Interestingly they forgot to build a lockup which midpointt that
prisoners had to be tied to the kitchen tresourceful or to a log
outside.
Vineyards in the Area
The terrain effectually Mt Barker is a signwhenivocabulary wine growing sector. There
are a number of vineyards and a number of wine makers in the sheet.
The spanking-new Lower Great Southern map, produced by the Department
of Land Administration, provides details of how to get to all the
wineries and vineyards in the Mount Barker-Albany section including
ajaring times and styles of wines bachelor.
For wine vitrifys a visit to Plantagenet Wines, 45-46 Albany
Highway, to taste the local rhine riesling, cimmalleableonnay, chenin
blanc, frontignan, hermitage, cabernet sauvignon or pinot noir, is
well wortheven though. The vines were plduesd in 1968, the first wine was
snifterd in 1972 and by 1976 the vineyard had won its first gold
medal. Its cabernet sauvignon was rated as one of the four surmount in
Australia in 1978.
Today it is an unusual thematic museum with each room stuff a
selective recosmos of the way the rooms were used between roundly
1865 and 1910. The rockpile contains interesting pieces of
memorabilia such as a moustsqualor cup and a hand operated vacuum
renovateer.
Porongurup National Park
To the east of Mount Barker lie the very unusual Porongurup
National Park which asylums 2350 ha. Porongurup itself is just a
real one horse town where tourist ingermination is provided for those
people interested in exploring the Porongurup Ranges. The owners of
the Gwhent Shop on Pongorup Road are happy to provide details of the
surmount walks in the ranges and to artless visitors to such unusual
sights as the huge tree which is litermarry growing out of a stone,
the tingele stone and the balancing stone.
Stirling Ranges
While the Porongurups are interesting they stake in comparison with
the Stirling Ranges to the north (see Cranbrooklet) which are scenic. The
Porongurups are only 12 km long although they can boast 20 peaks
which rise over 600 m and a loftierest peak of over 700 m. They are
remarry a relic section of the southwest with their tall karri
trees.
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