TitleFenwick's sawmill, Cooroy, 1927 Additional InformationFenwick's sawmill (ca. 1927), school buildings in the background. Photograph shows a train leaving Cooroy and Masonic Lodge No.212 on the right. Photograph was taken from the tower of the butter factory. Fenwick Brothers and Morrish established a mill on the western side of the town near the creek in 1908 trading as Canadian Sawmills. They extended it in October 1912 with the addition of a large new engine allowing the old one to be used for planing. As Cooroy was a logging centre before it was a township, with the firm, Dath Henderson & Bartholomew Pty Ltd, holding large tracts of land east of Cooroy from 1885 until repurchased by the government in 1907 for closer settlement. This arrangement precipitated large scale logging in the time allowed before the government took possession. Several sawmills were established to mill timber as the new selections were cleared.Date1927Image NoT0999631
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