6-531: Mount Helena may refer to: Mount Helena, Western Australia , a suburb of Perth. Mount Helena (British Columbia) , a mountain in British Columbia. Mount Helena City Park , a mountain and city park in Helena, Montana. [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
12-617: Is a suburb on the outskirts of Perth , in Western Australia , 35 km from the city, in the Shire of Mundaring . Its population in 2016 was 3,185 people. Mount Helena was originally known as White's Mill, a reference to Abraham White who, with Edward Vivien Harvey Keane and James Wright , in 1882 built a saw mill to supply sleepers for the construction of the Eastern Railway from Guildford to Chidlows Well. From 1898
18-712: The Helena River district. Mount Helena has two schools, Mount Helena Primary School and Eastern Hills Senior High School . They are situated next to each other on Keane Street East. Mount Helena has several active community and sporting groups, including the Mount Helena Voluntary Bush Fire Brigade, the Mount Helena Resident and Ratepayers Association, and a badminton club at the local Eastern Hills High School. The Railway Reserve Heritage Trail passes behind
24-890: The Mount Helena Tavern on its way through the suburb. For many years the Mount Helena Whim Festival has been held in Pioneer Park biannually since 2009; in 2018 the inaugural Hills Billy Cart Festival was held down Evans Street. 2019 saw the two events combine under the Mount Helena Classic. Currently the Hills Billy Cart Festival is held annually in October by the Hills Billy Carts Inc and
30-474: The area was known as Lion Mill until it was renamed Mount Helena in 1924. The chief instigator in the hunt for a new name was the local Progress Association whose first choice, "Hillcrest", had been rejected by the authorities because of a duplication in New South Wales . The next suggestion, "Mount Helena", was more successful, indicative of the terrain and because the suburb was situated centrally in
36-488: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mount_Helena&oldid=1066381450 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mount Helena, Western Australia Mount Helena
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