Complex sentence: Like the Boonah Butter Factory, the sawmill had been a dominant employer in the area and the site was recommended for heritage protection in 1998 as a rare surviving example of a major Queensland sawmill from the the mid twentieth century.
Split into simpler sentences: Like the Boonah Butter Factory, the sawmill had been a dominant employer in the area. The sawmill was recommended for heritage protection in 1998 as a rare surviving example of a major Queensland sawmill from the the mid twentieth century.