Morgan Museum
A railway-and-river museum telling the story of the colony's busiest inland port.
Morgan is hard to read today as the boomtown it once was — for a stretch it was the second-busiest port in South Australia, the point where river cargo met the railway from Adelaide. The Morgan Museum, housed in the old railway buildings, keeps that vanished world alive.
Displays of riverboat trade, the railway, and everyday life in a port that handled wool and wheat by the steamer-load fill in the gaps the quiet modern town leaves. The restored wharf nearby completes the picture.
It's a small, volunteer-run museum, but for understanding how completely the Murray once ran the economy of the interior, it's hard to beat.
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- P.S. Ruby tied up outside another paddle steamer at Morgan Wharf.png by Godson Collection - State Library of South Australia https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/collection/Godson+Collection , Public domain via Wikimedia Commons