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147 Campbell St
Swan Hill VIC 3585
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Swan
Hill is a city that lies on the
Murray Valley Hwy on the south bank of the
Murray River.
In 1836,
Mitchell camped on a rise by the Murray that he named after the swans that disturbed his night's sleep. Swan
Hill Pioneer Settlement is an authentically recreated nineteenth century Mallee town that also features displays of Aboriginal implements. The Wemba Wemba and Wati Wati tribes lived in the Swan
Hill area.
The Burke and Wills expedition reached Swan
Hill on Thursday, 6 September 1860 on their journey across Australia from
Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria. They made
Camp XV, (their fifteenth
camp out of
Melbourne), in the
police paddock on the banks of the
Murray River in an area that is now Riverside Park