seen better days

We drove to this small historic town today, the small church St. Stephens remains intact and restored.

Jarrahdale is a small historic town located 45 km south-east of Perth, Western Australia in the Darling Range.
The name is derived from its situation in a jarrah forest.
Established in the late 1800s as the state's first major timber milling operation, it played a key role in the development of Western Australia through the exportation of jarrah around the world.

The population of the town was 600 (400 males and 200 females) in 1898.

On 14 July 1997, the Jarrahdale townsite was entered on the National Trust's List of Classified Heritage places, the seventh Western Australian town to be so classified.

In 2011 Jarrahdale had a population of 1,082.
Since 2001, the historic precinct has been managed by the state's National Trust organisation alongside private residential and tourism-oriented developments.
Which the town now relies on for future growth and development, a far cry from it's glory days when it was a timber town.
But it seems to be holding it's own in the fast world of tourism.

( thanks to all you lovely blippers that nudged the "sunset" blip last night into the spotlight)