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TRAVEL The Murray River
The Murray River
ECHUCA/MOAMA
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 intimately linked with the Murray Echuca as the town grew. over twenty years before the first
in New South Wales, Victoria and River System. Hopwood worked to establish two steam boats made their way
South Australia. For many settlers Echuca was founded by one of a town, which eventually had a upstream. In 1853 the “Mary Ann”
they were the only source of sup- the most enterprising characters of major influence on the develop- skippered by William Randell, and
ply and contact with the outside the early colonial days, an ex-con- ment of the great inland river sys- the Lady Augusta under Captain
world. vict named Henry Hopwood. In tem. When he died in 1869 he left Frances Cadell, ran an unexpected
The Paddlesteamer days back in 1850 he bought a small punt, a thriving town where nothing had race up-river, each sure of being
1865 to 1910 were a boom time which operated across the Murray existed 16 years earlier, when he the first to open up the Murray for
for Echuca. From the earliest days river near the Campaspe Junction. built his first slab Inn. traffic. The Lady Augusta passed
of Echuca’s history, growth and Originally known as “Hopwood’s After Sturt first discovered and the Mary Ann arriving at the tiny
development of the area has been Ferry” the name was changed to named the Murray in 1830, it was settlement of Swan Hill only hours
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