Benjamin Mason - Cannington, Western Australia
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S 32° 01.463 E 115° 56.531
50H E 400107 N 6456372
A monument to a pioneer of the Western Australian timber industry
Waymark Code: WMQNXK
Location: Western Australia, Australia
Date Posted: 03/10/2016
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Benjamin Mason was born in 1828 and came to Western Australia with his parents a few years later,after school he did an apprenticeship as a carpenter and went on to own shops in the City . However by 1866 he had constructed his own timber mill in the hills above Perth and soon over 100 men were employed at the mill, In 1870 Mason formed a partnership with Francis Bird, two years later they had built a horse drawn wooden railway line from the mill to the Canning River to be transported by barge to Fremantle for shipping. He died in 1893 aged 65
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