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The Serpentine-Jarrahdale Road District was established on August 8, 1913 with the merger of the Serpentine Road District (1894) and the Jarrahdale Road District (1902). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] On July 1, 1961, it became a Shire following the passage of the Local Government Act 1960 , which reformed all remaining road districts into shires.
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 worl
Rob Coales (born 1975/1976) is an Australian politician and the current president of the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale since winning a landslide election victory in 2023, becoming the Shire's first directly-elected leader. [1] Coales is also a member of the Western Australian Police Force as a police sergeant. [2]
Serpentine-Jarrahdale was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 2005 to 2008. The district was named for the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale , which in turn is named for the communities of Serpentine and Jarrahdale in Perth 's south-eastern hinterland.
The metropolitan region is defined by the Planning and Development Act 2005 to include 30 local government areas with the outer extent being the City of Wanneroo and the City of Swan to the north, the Shire of Mundaring, City of Kalamunda, and the City of Armadale to the east, the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale to the southeast and the City of ...
Serpentine Farm was subsequently sold at auction to John Wellard, [2] who purchased 5,000 acres (20 km 2) of land with the homestead for £3,000. Wellard had arrived in Western Australia in 1841, aged 15, as an apprenticed seaman, with the ship he was one being wrecked at Woodman Point .
On 1 July 1977, its Byford Ward was abolished and transferred to the Shire of Serpentine–Jarrahdale. [4] On 1 July 1979 it became the Town of Armadale and on 16 November 1985 it assumed its current name when attained city status. [3] The City of Armadale maintains 615 km of roads and a little over 14 km² of parks and gardens.
The Saint Stephen's Church in Serpentine is an Anglican church part of the Diocese of Perth's Parish of Serpentine-Jarrahdale. [15] The church's foundation stone was laid by the Bishop of Perth, Charles Riley on 10 May 1913, with the church being consecrated on 6 December 1913. Plans for a stone church in Serpentine dated back to 1885. [16]