Shire History

In September and November 1836 the Surveyor General Captain John Septimus Roe led a forty-day expedition out to the unknown east of the settled districts of the Avon Valley. Mt Marshall and Lake McDermott were named after Captain Marshall McDermont, an early settler to the Swan River Colony. Captain Roe was loath to give any native names as he considered them unpronounceable and impossible to spell. 

NEXT COUNCIL MEETING

The next Ordinary Meeting of Council will be held in Council Chambers on Wednesday 11th November 2009, commencing at 6:45pm.

The Sandalwood Shire

The Shire of Mt Marshall officially became known as the 'Sandalwood Shire' in February 2007. 

 The Sandalwooders were true poineers of the Mt Marshall District as the marks made by the Sandalwood Drays were the tracks that enabled settlers to find their blocks.

Norm Bates, a resident of Bencubbin approached the Shire of Mt Marshall in 2007 and shared his idea of a restoring a sandalwood dray and housing it in the main street of Bencubbin to honour the Sandalwooders as true pioneers of the regions. 

Read More about Sandalwooders and the new Sandalwood Dray