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Who Are WeYour Hosts: Brad, Fliss, Kim & Jen We think the reason why so many people enjoy their visit to Wongan Hills Hotel is the personal service and friendly atmosphere. The Hotel is a family business run by long time friends. .
Licensee: Fatboyz Pty Ltd |
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The HotelThe Wongan Hills Hotel was orginally developed as one of eight 'state owned' hotels in 1924 to help overcome the growing trade in 'sly grog'. It was re-developed on the same site in its current form in 1946. When it was sold to a group of community entrepreneurs know as "the Civic Fathers" in the late 1950s it became the Wongan Hills Civic Hotel. The name reverted to the Wongan Hills Hotel when further privatised in the 1970s.The TownThe district was discovered by WA’s first surveyor-general John Septimus Roe. Roe was the first white man to explore and map the area in 1936. This was seven years after the founding of the Swan River colony. The name Wongan Hills originates from an aboriginal word for ‘whispering hills’.Until the turn of the century the only white men to visit the area regularly were sandalwood cutters and monks from New Norcia shepherding their flocks of sheep. In 1909 the first store was opened and in 1911 the townsite was officially proclaimed. 1911 was also the year the railway line reached the area. The first school was opened two years later and Local Government was established in 1916. Today Wongan Hills is the centre of a prosperous wheat and sheep farming district. It is a modern, community motivated town with excellent medical facilities, shops, school, police, churches and many sporting facilities. |
