Korong Station was a pastoral lease that operated as a
sheep station
A sheep station is a large property ( station, the equivalent of a ranch) in Australia or New Zealand, whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and/or meat. In Australia, sheep stations are usually in the south-east or sout ...
in
Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
.
It is situated approximately west of
Laverton and east of
Leonora in the
Goldfields-Esperance region. The property adjoins Mount Crawford Station.
[
]Gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ...
was being mined at leases named Korong on the Mount Margaret
Mount Margaret was an abandoned town located northeast of Perth and southwest of Laverton in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia.
The first European to visit the area was government surveyor John Forrest who passed throug ...
goldfields in 1898.
The station was established at some time prior to 1914 and was breeding sheep at this time but not heavily stocked as a result of insufficient rain. In 1926 the property was supporting a flock of 5,000 sheep.
The homestead
Homestead may refer to:
*Homestead (buildings), a farmhouse and its adjacent outbuildings; by extension, it can mean any small cluster of houses
*Homestead (unit), a unit of measurement equal to 160 acres
*Homestead principle, a legal concept th ...
burnt to the ground in 1928 following a fire that started in the kitchen. The stations manager's wife, Mrs Williams, was the only one home when the fire started. The station manager, Mr Williams, was a shareholder in the pastoral company that owned Korong. The property was running about 7,000 sheep at this time, despite it being a dry year.
By 1935 the property was running a flock of 12,000 sheep and shearing
Sheep shearing is the process by which the woollen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The person who removes the sheep's wool is called a '' shearer''. Typically each adult sheep is shorn once each year (a sheep may be said to have been "shorn" or ...
produced 250 bales of wool.
Koorong, along with neighbouring Mount Crawford, was owned by Hugo Green in 1947; Green had acquired the property from the Mount Crawford Pastoral Company.
See also
*List of ranches and stations
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
West Africa
*Obudu Cattle Ranch
* SO ...
*List of pastoral leases in Western Australia
Pastoral leases in Western Australia are increasingly known as "stations", and more particular – as either sheep stations or cattle stations. They are usually found in country that is designated as rangeland. In 2013 there were a total of 527 p ...
References
{{Stations of the Goldfields-Esperance Western Australia
Homesteads in Western Australia
Stations in Goldfields-Esperance