Silverton

Once a thriving mining centre of 3000 Silverton is now a virtual ghost town of about 50 inhabitants with a number of historic buildings, several art galleries and museums and a pub and that is about it.

The first Eouropeans to see the Barrier Range were Charles Sturt and party during their trek from Adelaide in 1844 intended to prove or disprove the existence of an inland sea in the centre of Australia.

Pastoralists, who had followed in the wake of Srurt in the 1850s, moved futher west in the 1860s as river frontage disappearea along the Darling.