Golden Pipeline
A time capsule of water,
gold & Western Australia
A project from the National Trust of WA
A self-guided drive trail between the Perth Hills and Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields. Go with the Flow. Follow the water to discover more about the audacious goldfields water supply scheme and Engineer CY O’Connor.
“Future generations, I am quite certain will think of us and bless us for our far seeing patriotism, and it will be said of us, as Isaiah said of old, ‘They made a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert”
Merredin to Yerbillon See & Do Museums
Hood-Penn Museum
Go to the Westonia Shire Council to obtain entry (fees apply) to the Hood-Penn Museum in the former Club Hotel building.
Apart from a vibrating mine tunnel with sound effects, the museum features scenes and artefacts to showcase life in the earliest days of the Shire of Westonia such as in an old-fashioned kitchen.
Early maps of the area are also on display.
Explore
Click on any map section or place below to discover The Golden Pipeline.
Northam to Cunderdin
Explore section two
