Echuca Historical Society

The Museum of the Echuca Historical Society tells the story of Australia's, paddle boat capital and biggest inland port. The domestic of the P. S. Adelaide, the World's oldest, wooden-hulled, running paddle steamer. Echuca in Victoria, founded in 1853, by ex-convict Henry Hopwood, from Bolton, in Lancashire, England, became a totally essential industrial centre. Hopwood, realising that Echuca become a super crossing region for the farm animals from the North, on their manner to the gold fields at Bendigo, set up a punt.

The government railway reached Echuca in 1864, connecting it to Melbourne and its port. Wool from the Riverina and Redgum for railway sleepers from the forests along the Murray River were transferred at the Echuca wharf, from the river boats, to the railway and thence to Melbourne. There to be loaded on to ships and brought to America and Europe. Located in Echuca's Port Precinct within the antique Police Station, 1 Dickson Street, the Museum is shaded by means of historical Moreton Bay Fig Trees looking over the River Murray and has a priceless collection of the riverboat generation and early life in Echuca.

It's miles the Echuca Historical Society Museum working from the 1869 Police Station and Lock up National Trust Classified. Many files and memorabilla can be located at the Museum consisting of river charts, facts of floods, paddlesteamers that travelled up and down the powerful Murray and tales of ladies and men who made their life in Echuca.