Perth - Old Mill Reserve

The old flour mill on the Old Mill Reserve goes back to the earliest days of the settlement. This picturesque old windmill was built in 1835 by a miller named Shenton, but it was too far from the wheat fields and had to close down in 1859. A plan to demolish it to make way for road development aroused so much opposition from the people of Perth that this relic of pioneering days was preserved and now houses a museum.