RIVERLAND Self Drive History Tour
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The lookout that that lookout The 1830. of of Loxton’s vibrant shopping shopping vibrant Loxton’s of collection of photograph of collection s from all over the Riverland showing showing Riverland the over all from s Murray River expedition expedition River Murray The Rotunda in the centre centre the in Rotunda The Located within The Vill The within Located age, Loxton. View the amazing amazing the View Loxton. age, Sturt passed here on his his on here passed Sturt explorers, Captain Charles Charles Captain explorers, EAST TERRACE, LOXTON TERRACE, EAST 1956 MURRAY RIVER FLOOD EXHIBITION EXHIBITION FLOOD RIVER MURRAY 1956 One of Australia’s greatest greatest Australia’s of One Ph: 8584 7194 | www.thevillageloxton.com.au www.thevillageloxton.com.au | 7194 8584 Ph: KINGSTON BRIDGE LOOKOUT BRIDGE KINGSTON 4 7785 | Email: [email protected] Email: | 7785 4 858 Ph: and Good Friday). Allen Hosking Dr, Loxton. Loxton. Dr, Hosking Allen Friday). Good and Loxton. Street ry Hen 18 ing Drive, Loxton. Drive, ing Hosk Allen Loxton. Village, The of boundary Open Tuesday—Sunday 11am to 3pm (Closed Christmas Day Day Christmas (Closed 3pm to 11am Tuesday—Sunday Open every Sunday afternoon at 2pm for guided tours. tours. guided for 2pm at afternoon Sunday every Located on the exterior exterior the on Located they shopped and banked, and the school their children attended. attended. children their school the and banked, and shopped they is proudly maintained by enthusiastic volunteers and is open open is and volunteers enthusiastic by maintained proudly is buildings and exhibits in The Village. See how they lived, where where lived, they how See Village. The in exhibits and buildings Pepper Tree stands. stands. Tree Pepper the lifestyle of one of Loxton’s pioneering families. ‘The Pines’ Pines’ ‘The families. pioneering Loxton’s of one of lifestyle the of the early settlers and their families are depicted in over 45 45 over in depicted are families their and settlers early the of proximity to where the the where to proximity gardens, the contents of the house represent a snapshot of of snapshot a represent house the of contents the gardens, were transformed into lush citrus orchards. The everyday lives lives everyday The orchards. citrus lush into transformed were occupied a hut in close close in hut a occupied Mrs Ella Kingdon. Sited on 2,000 square metres of beautiful beautiful of metres square 2,000 on Sited Kingdon. Ella Mrs and how dry Mallee plains plains Mallee dry how and Charles Loxton who who Loxton Charles purposes by former owner, owner, former by purposes drought and rabbit plagues plagues rabbit and drought its connection to William William to connection its display and entertainment entertainment and display how farmers battled heat, heat, battled farmers how Pepper Tree. Renown for for Renown Tree. Pepper to the people of Loxton for for Loxton of people the to during the mid-1800s. See See mid-1800s. the during regarding the famous famous the regarding contents were bequeathed bequeathed were contents families arrived in the region region the in arrived families any stories stories any m are There sandstone villa and its its and villa sandstone when the first pioneering pioneering first the when LOXTON’S PEPPER TREE PEPPER LOXTON’S this historic historic this 1909, in Built behind and travel back to to back travel and behind AND GARDENS AND Leave the 21st century century 21st the Leave Loxton. Lions Park, Grant Schubert Dr, Dr, Schubert Grant Park, Lions THE VILLAGE, LOXTON VILLAGE, THE HOUSE HISTORIC PINES’ ‘THE of the Murray River system. system. River Murray the of understand the cycles and impact impact and cycles the understand river red gum, you can begin to to begin can you gum, red river SOUTH AUSTRALIA SOUTH the trunk of this magnificent old old magnificent this of trunk the studying the high river levels on on levels river high the studying RIVERLAND THE high river can affect this region. By By region. this affect can river high View at a glance how severely a a severely how glance a at View TREE OF KNOWLEDGE KNOWLEDGE OF TREE sitor Information Centre | Ph: 8584 8071. 8071. 8584 Ph: | Centre Information sitor Vi Loxton of East Terrace, Loxton overlooks the river and town wharf. wharf. town and river the overlooks Loxton Terrace, East of large memorial at the end end the at memorial large River exploration. This This exploration. River 1830 during their Murray Murray their during 1830 this point on January 30th 30th January on point this 27 foot whale boat past past boat whale foot 27 heroic crew rowed their their rowed crew heroic Captain Sturt and his his and Sturt Captain STURT MEMORIAL AND LOOKOUT LOOKOUT AND MEMORIAL STURT OLIVEWOOD HISTORIC Discover the Riverland’s HOMESTEAD AND MUSEUM Irrigation was pioneered at Renmark historical sites by the Chaffey Bros. in 1887. RIVERLAND Olivewood Estate is comprised of LOXTON BARMERA/ orange orchards, olive groves and four museum buildings, one of which LOVEDAY • The Village is the native pine log cabin style Self Drive • 1956 Flood Exhibition • Lake Bonney home of Charles Chaffey and family • “The Pines” • Napper’s Bridge completed in 1889. View horse drawn Loxton’s Historic and Ruins vehicles and implements, large collection of photos and plant House and Garden associated with the fruit industry. Morning and afternoon tea History Tour • Barmera War by arrangement. • Loxton’s Pepper Tree Memorial Open Thursday - Monday 10am-4pm. • East Terrace, Loxton • Barmera Town Clock Ph: 8586 6175 | Email: [email protected] • Sturt Memorial • Loveday Internment & Lookout Camp PARINGA BRIDGE • Tree of Knowledge • The Bluebird Opened in January 1927 & allowing Monument the passage of river boats. Designed for MORGAN • Barmera Heritage both road and rail traffic, the historic • Morgan Museum Walk lift-span bridge and associated railway have played an important role OVERLAND RENMARK in facilitating local communications in the area in times of flooding. CORNER • Argo Barge • Overland Corner Hotel • P.S. Industry • Olivewood Historic KINGSTON ON Homestead & Disclaimer: Created by The Village, Loxton. Information MURRAY Museum in this brochure is a guide only & was considered by The • Kingston Bridge • Renmark Paringa Village to be correct at the time of publication, February Community Museum 2017. Details and services are subject to change without Lookout notice. Entry fees may apply at some venues. Please contact • Paringa Bridge individual venues for opening times, fees and information. WAIKERIE • Waikerie RSL BERRI & War Museum • History Walk of Berri • Waikerie Pioneer Museum COBDOGLA • Waikerie Heritage Walk • Cobdogla Steam & • Waikerie Toy Museum Irrigation Museum Come on, discover the • Waikerie Machinery Loxton Visitor Information Centre Museum www.visitloxton.com.au Riverland’s vibrant history! MORGAN MUSEUM about two million being BARMERA HERITAGE WALK sufficiently cured that Take a walk around Morgan, This walk is approximately 4.5km long and includes a they would return to duty. a town rich in river history. stroll through the foundations of Barmera discovering the Horses were heavily used Founded in 1878, Morgan struggles and triumphs of the towns early settlers. in World War I and were was one of the busiest inland involved in the war’s first Available at the Barmera Visitor Information Centre. waterway ports. The Morgan military conflict involving Ph: 8588 2289 | www.barmeratourism.com.au Museum comprises three separate buildings filled with items of Great Britain. A Memorial memorabilia. Superb horse drawn and vintage vehicles are on to commemorate the work of the Australian War Horses is COBDOGLA IRRIGATION AND display along with the old telephone exchange, a school room placed in the gardens at the top of Barwell Ave. STEAM MUSEUM and farmhouse kitchen. Railway Terrace, Morgan. Barmera Visitor Information Centre, Barwell Avenue, Barmera. A site littered with history Contact the Morgan Information and Resource Centre for Ph: 8588 2289 | www.barmeratourism.com.au and heritage, the museum more information. Fourth Street Morgan | Ph: 8540 2643 features a Humphrey Pump. WAIKERIE RSL CLUB AND WAR MUSEUM LAKE BONNEY With the focus being on Lake Bonney, a natural early irrigation history and The museum is housed within the premises of the Waikerie fresh water lake fed from steam powered engineering RSL sub branch containing many items relating to local South the River Murray via principles. There is also a 1908 Bagnall Steam Train offering Australians who fought in both World War I and II as well Chambers Creek, was first rides through the extensive landscaped grounds on open days. as the Vietnam War. Collections include uniforms, firearms, seen by Europeans in 1838 by Joseph Hawdon and his fellow Incorporated are dioramas depicting the regions development medals, photographs and other wartime memorabilia. There is drover, Charles Bonney, while herding some 300 cattle along from pre-white settlement through the early years.