20210416 NSW Myall Creek Massacre Memorial to Delungra

20210416 Ten minutes up the road we turned into a memorial dedicated to twenty-eight unarmed slaughted Indigenous Australians.  It's a 500 metre walk along a serpentine path with information plaques mapping out the details of a massacre in 1838. It was on the 18 December 1838 early in the morning when  seven men were publicly hanged for massacring Aboriginal people, they were the first British subjects to be executed in Australian following a supreme court trial that set a judicial precedent but unfortunately attitudes towards such massacres took longer to change. 

It was a group of eleven stockmen who rode up to the Myall Creek Station hut, beside were a grope of thirty-five aboriginal people were camped after being invited to their station for their safety and protection from the gangs of murderous stockmen.

The station hut keeper asked, what are you going to do with the Aboriginal people, just take them over the the range and frighten them, said the stockmen who entered the hut, tied them to a rope and led them to a gully where they slaughtered them all, except for one woman whom they kept with them for the next couple of days, approximately 28 people were murdered, largely women, children and old men.

Scene of the  infamous station in June 1838, the large building on the right may have been a later addition.

'Australian Aborigines Slaughtered by Convicts' Illustration of the Myall Creek Massacre.

The red rocks along the serpentine path represent the shed of blood that went into the ground and cried out for justice.

I assume the crosses were placed here by the Aboriginal people as a respect for the massacre.

The site includes an outdoor amphitheatre and meeting place for dance, drama and storytelling.

20210418 A well set out memorial that pulls at the heart string and an important part of our history that need to be remembered.  We moved onto Delungra a small town with not a lot to offer but it's home to the people that dare to live here and our home for the next couple of day as we camp up in the show grounds to see the rain out.

The photo shows teams of horses and drivers that have hauled grain to the Delungra Railway Depot. In the top right corner of the photo, buildings that faced the railway tracks are the Town Hall, Delungra Hotel, the butcher shops and pool rooms and the weighbridge.

The Delungra pub known today was opened on April 26, 1958.

If only this old place could talk, I can just imagine the tales it could tell.

The Rock & Roll Dinner is a busy venue on the edge of town and the only fast food outlet in town.

We've been stuck in the van for a couple of day so we decided to walk the town and check it out when we came upon this Grain Corp Silo and I'm pretty sure its still in use.

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