Port of Echuca Discovery Centre

Port of Echuca Discovery Centre is positioned in Echuca. Built in 1865 by the Victorian Railways, the Port of Echuca Wharf become vital to Echuca’s improvement. For a few years, Echuca turned into the principle shipbuilding centre for the river shipping industry. Some of the boats built in Echuca, together with the PS Adelaide, still perform at the Murray River nowadays. At its top, Echuca supported 8 sawmills and turned over up to 240 paddlesteamers a year. Today, the Port represents the pageantry of the river trade’s heyday and gives an top notch perception into our pioneering days.

The Echuca Wharf is a surviving part of the remarkable purple gum wharf, which as soon as stretched greater than a quarter of a mile. Learn approximately the bustling river change of the 1800s, find out the Star Hotel with it's underground bar, and listen extremely good but proper testimonies of the Murray River for your next go to to Port of Echuca. P.S. Adelaide is the oldest wood hulled paddlesteamer nonetheless running everywhere within the global. She turned into constructed at Echuca in 1866 for J.C. Grassey and Partners. She is now moored at Echuca Wharf and used for special occasions.