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As late as 1889 , when Assistant Surveyor Henry King set up camp on the north side of Merredin Rock ( see the Merredin Peak Heritage Trail for a map to the exact site ) , there was still no township . A mine had operated at Yallourn North between 1887 and 1899 and was reopened in 1916 . A couple of doors west of the hotel is ' Ercildoon ' ( c.1858 ) , an attractive house which is now a bed-and-breakfast . The Murrayville-Nhill Rd actually follows the western boundary of Wyperfeld National Park for some distance and those with a 4WD will find a couple of tracks heading eastwards into the park ( the Milmed Rock Track and Chinaman Well Track ) . The area was known as Marma Gully until the township started to develop in the early 1870s . To defend his honour local citizens formed a ' vigilance committee ' , tarred and feathered Cochrane and ran him out of town . The area was settled in the 1850s and the township of Moe was originally located 3 km to the north of its present site . The great appeal of Manjimup is that anyone interested in the timber industry in the South West can see nearly everything they need to see by spending a couple of days in Manjimup . A gypsum mine to the north , established in 1920 , is still operating today . The mine has a surface area of three square kilometres which is constantly hosed down in order to settle potentially explosive coal dust and inhibit oxidation . In recent times the complexion of the township has changed . The arrival of bucket dredges and electric locomotives in the late twenties and early thirties saw the acceleration of production at the mine site . After a couple of hairpin bends there is a turnoff to the right into Straws Lane ( it is the first bitumen road on the right ) which is signposted for Hanging Rock . After delays caused by Wilson 's objections the township was finally surveyed around 1876 . The mine yielded 425 kg of gold over a 16-year period . Heavy rain , dense scrub and poisonous forage took their toll over the next couple of years . A truly spectacular event in the town 's history was a meteor shower in 1969 when fragments of the rarest known type of meteorite fell over a wide area to the sound of explosions and blinding flashes of light .