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Bookpurnong in the Riverland. The Lutheran Church built in 1924. The pseudo clock in the tower has the time painted as 11;45 pm or am.
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Morgan on the River Murray. The Landseers warehouse supplied good for the paddle steamers that went up the Darling River to outback NSW from 1878 to 1931..
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Purnong on the River Murray. The public hall with an ugly modern porch addition. Old part of hall opened in 1903 and was used as the first school.
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Under a Bridge
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Yarrawonga. The Cumberoona is an old paddle steamer rebuilt in 1986 as this ship's bell shows.
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Goolwa. The Paddle Steamer Oscar beneath the Goolwa to Hindmarsh Island bridge.
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Winding Rail Bridge
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Looking Back Towards Goolwa
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Morgan on the River Murray. The Terminus and Commercial Hotels which were both built in 1879. The town was settled 1878. Morgan was the terminus of the railway from Adelaide.
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Dookie. The grand Catholic Church on the hill built in 1898.
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Berri. In the Riverland. Sculpture and memorial stone for well know SA Police Aboriginal tracker Jimmy James. On the banks of the Murray River.
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Swan Hill. The Gem paddle steamer with reflections in a dock near the River Murray.
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Piers
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Moorook. St Peters LutheranChurch built in 1910. The porch was added in the same Gothic style in 1957.
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Jervois Primary School. Opened in 1922 when this schoolroom was built.
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Swan Hill. The second brick water tower built in McCallum Street. This simpler tower was built in 1902. Beyond is Elwood House built 1930.
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Swan Hill. Evocative images of the River Red gums during the Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement laser show.
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Holder near Waikerie on the Murray River. Holder was a communistic Village Settlement Scheme site in 1894. It was sited next to the original Waikerie Station sheep property. The Waikerie homestead built in 1880 still stands despite floods.
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Swan Hill. The Art Deco style Town Hall built in 1934 at a cost of over 21,265 pounds. It was restored a few years ago. Note urns in niches on front wall.
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Echuca. the former London Chartered Bank. Classical detailing. completed 1881. Architect Wm Vahland.
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Renmark Hotel. First communiy hotel in British Empire in 1897. Third floor added around 1930 and whole hotel made Art Deco in style.
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Loxton. Shop entrance all in pressed tin of S.J Reiner photographer.
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Myrla near Wunkar. This Lutheran Church was built by the Yinkanie railway line. It passed the church rear fence. Church built 1924 and railway line completed in 1925. Siding called Parrelum a wheat variety. Soon changed to Myrla. .
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Port Adelaide. The Maritime Museum. An early map of Captain Charles Sturt's river and South Australian outback explorations in the 1830s and 1840s.
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Moorook. St Peters Lutheran Church built in 1910. The porch was added in the same Gothic style in 1957.
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Rushworth. The original Mechanics Instittue was built in 1897. This new Institute was erected in 1813. It is now the town Museum.
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Paringa. Information about Sister Balfour Ogilvy who was massacred by Japanese soldiers during World War Two. She is depicted on the silo art installation there.
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The River Murray mouth. Cormorants watching fishermen from the sand bars.
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Morgan. Interior view of the Anglican Church built in 1894. before that the Anglicans used a paddelsteamer along the Murry River the Etona as a church.
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Loxton. On the River Murray . A town based on wheat and sheep farmers and horticulturalists and viticulturalists. Street sculpture of sheep with steel wool..
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Barmera on Lake Bonney. The 2015 centenary monument to the the ANZACS and Gallipoli..
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Bookpurnong. On the River Murray at Lock Four near Loxton. The lock manager's house built around 1929 when the lock was completed. Unsual triple arch decoration in the gable brick work.
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Murray Flood Plains
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First and second school rooms in Mannum
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Cobdogla Railway Station. Railway line opened 1921. Used until the 1960s for moving irrigation pipes and timber. Now used for tourists visiting the steam museum.
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Murbko. The old 1907 built and still in use Lutheran Church with the River Murray flats at its back door.
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Murray Bridge. Part of Swanport Bridge. The third bridge across the River Murray at Murray Bridge.
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Kingston on Murray. One of the few remaining structures of the communistic Village Settlewment schemes along the River Murray in the 1890s. The village school built in 1898 and now a residence.
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Blanchetown Shack
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Pyap and the River Murray beyond. A communstic Village Settlement scheme operated here from 1894 to 1904. This stone flue or vent linked to the steam boilers which drove the irrigation pumps was erected on Flastaff Hill in 1895.
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Yarrawonga. The entrance to Bryamine historic house built for Elizabeth Hume in 1842. These Humeville gates came from another house on the property.
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River Murray mouth. A dredge pumps sand and water away from the River Murray mouth to keep it open.
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Mannum. The third government school. Built around 1829.
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Pellaring Flat near Mannum on the River Murray. The government school. Built in 1895. Closed as a school in 1936. Now used for farm storage. original fan light abvoe door still intact.
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Echuca. The engine shed built in 1864 when the railway reached Ecuca.
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Mannum. Billabong and island in the lagoon just north of Mannum on the River Murray.
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Swan Hill. Toilet art installation in the Riverside cafe near the Swan Hill Pioneer Village
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Barmera. Established in 1920. The old Post Office.
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Echuca. The Njernda Aboriginal Centre built 1869 as the Shire Hall and Courthouse. Main entrance. Architect Wilhelm Vahland. .
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Mypolonga. This is the original classroom of the state school. It opened in 1916 but this classroom now has side additions.
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Echuca. Railway arrived 1864. This station with granite window sills and quoins built in 1865.
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Moorook on the River Murray. The government primary school. It was built in the 1920s and still operates.
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1909 Commerical Bank building in Mannum
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Shearer' works office and Shearer's house above the factory site in Mannum South Australia.
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Renmark North plaque with information about Block E School which opened in 1924.
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Echuca. Queen Anne house built in 1903 in Hare Street. Built for Miss Alice Callaghan. Spire has lost its top.
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Kingston on Murray. One of the few remaining structures from the communistic Village Settlewment schemes along the River Murray in the 1890s. The village school built in 1898 and now a residence.
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Echuca. The Njernda Aboriginal Centre built 1869 as the Shire Hall and Courthouse. Main facade. Architect Wilhelm Vahland. .
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Murray Bridge. The Round House built 19876 for the superintendant in charge of the building of the first bridge across the Murray River. Now the town Museum of Murray Bridge.
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Loxton. St Petri Lutheran Church and school room built in 1904. The town was established later in 1907.
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