last mill site which still contains relics of its existence. This mill was operated by Bunnings until 1997. An Alcoa alumina mining operation was concluded in 1998. Both Bunnings and Alcoa removed most of their plant fittings when they departed. The surrounding area includes catchments and steep slopes with remnants of the former native forest, e.g., near the Kitty's Gorge walk trail within the Serpentine National Park. In 2009, the Forest Products Commission announced plans for renewed logging in the vicinity, plotting 50-year-old regrowth sites east of the townsite. There were once many timber mills in the jarrah forest surrounding Jarrahdale, some of which were flooded when the Serpentine Dam was constructed in 1957–61. Railway formations and cuttings are indicators of past development. "By the 1900s, Jarrahdale had a town population of about 1200 people while 800 more were housed in surrounding bush landings and remote sites." From 1925 until 1927, a portable school was established in a building mounted on railway trucks, so that it could be easily transported by forestry train from one work camp to another, as timber-cutters and their families moved through the forest. See also 3rd Night 1961 Western Australian bushfires Mundijong, Western Australia South Western Highway References Further reading Jarrahdale Heritage Park at Natural Heritage site of the National Trust (W.A.) Welcome to Jarrahdale Tourism promotion site External links Jarrahdale Museum and history at Jarrahdale Heritage Society Mill Manager's Residence Assessment documentation for entry to Register of Heritage Places, at W.A. Heritage Council, 14 May 1999 Suburb Profile for Jarrahdale - Real Estate Institute of WA Towns in Western Australia Mining towns in Western Australia Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale