Jarrahdale is a small historic town located 45 km south-east of Perth, Western Australia in the Darling Range.

Established in the late 1800s as the state's first major timber milling operation, it played a key role in the development of Western Australia through the exportation of jarrah around the world.

[4] Since 2001, the historic precinct has been managed by the state's National Trust organisation alongside private residential and tourism-oriented developments.

However, the Governor of Western Australia, Frederick Weld, began granting long term timber licences.

This then caused a group of Victorian investors to be granted a large land concession in June 1871, who established the Jarrahdale Station Syndicate.

In the community, log chops and dances were organised, while excursions to Rockingham for workers and their families became common, with the first one being on Western Australia day on 2 June 1879.

Jarrahdale's growth saw the construction of a Wesleyan Methodist church, school, jail, hospital, public hall.

[5] Private Luke Siford was one of them and enlisted in August 1915 as part of the 28th Australian Infantry Battalion and died during the Battle of the Somme.

In 2022, the memorial was renovated with funding from Alcoa, MLA Hugh Jones, Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale and the Federal government.

Also, December 1929, the Jarrahdale Jarrah Forests and Railways Ltd. concession expired and the company was hit by extra charges by the government.

5 and 6 mills and the abandoned settlement of Big Brook, which was established as a suburb of Jarrahdale in the late 1800s under Lake Jasper.

This mill is still operating as a small production business called Heritage Sawmillers, located on the Gooralong Brook which flows through the townsite.

Following negotiations with the landowners Wesfarmers/Sotico, the shire purchased some of the land for housing development and, in 2001, an entire historic precinct was donated to the National Trust of Western Australia, including the site of a closed timber sawmill.

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.

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.