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The area developed as a fruit and poultry growing zone. The demand for chickens
and eggs was very high in the 1900s and the area around the railway became
widely known as the major poultry producing centre in the state.
There was a need to get the produce to market easily so a small shed and finally
a small station were established on the Mundaring loop railway line.
It was given the name Zamia (after a type of native palm that grows in the south
west) and operated from 1913 to 1954.
Although it is quite an unusual name there is also a Mt. Zamia in Queensland and a Zamia Street in Redfern, Sydney.
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