The Bourke Wharf is a replica of the original wharves in Bourke. The area was considered to have little prospects for commercial activity. In the late 1850s, the Darling River was opened up as a key transport route, and river communities like Bourke grew as important transport centres. While the wharf is a replica, it … Read more
The river cruises in Swan Hill is operated at the Pioneer Settlement open air museum. The cruise is on the PS Pyap, a paddlesteamer built at Mannum in South Australia in 1896, and was a floating store for the Eudunda Farmers Cooperative, selling to settlers and settlements along the Murray River before being sold for … Read more
The Pioneer Settlement is a museum in Swan Hill set on the edge of the Little Murray River. It started with the paddlesteamer PS Gem purchased in the 1960s to be an art gallery, and added some buildings in the style of the Mallee region to be around it. Some buildings we donated, others were … Read more
The Historical Port on the Murray River in Echuca was built in 1865 to support sawmills in the area. The wharf is three stories high, and in its heyday supported a fleet of paddle steamers larger than anywhere in the world, until the late 1880s when trains and trucks took over the transport of goods. … Read more
