MORVEN - POPULATION: 250

WED 26 - FRI 28.6.2013: Been a break in the blog entries - as always a story and we will update later! Pulled into Morven Recreation Ground - excellent! $5.00 (donation), per night and if you are early enough there are some 10 sites with power and water, plus a dump point, showers and toilets. We chose to park down by the creek and were serenaded (day and night), by the ducks! Morven is certainly making every effort to capture the "caravanning public" - great feel to the area. Major Mitchell travelled through Morven in 1845 and it was settled in 1859. We have found that 1845/6 was a busy time for the Major! Visited Morven Museum which was 15 years in the making and houses the history of the area. Then to a collection of hand crafted miniature buildings by Mr A. R. (Bob) Johnson which replicated the original settlement of Morven.

JOHN GORDON
COMMERCIAL HOTEL
REPLICA

The Great Depression (1929-32) was a time of extreme hardship. Many people lost their homes and were forced to live in makeshift dwellings. One innovative idea was to erect dwellings using kerosene tins. Five kerosene huts were built in the Morven Town Common. They were built in a large circle with one tap in the middle. Each one had a bower shed at the front (posts and a roof for branches for shade) with a cooking galley and vegie garden. Huts were constructed using a sapling frame and flattened 4 gallon kerosene tins neatly folded at the edges which cladded the building. In later years mainly pensioners lived in the huts.

MORVEN MUSEUM



KEROSENE HUT

INSIDE THE
KEROSENE HUT

Went into "town" for supplies and stopped for a drink at the local. According to the towns folk we were really lucky because "he only opens when he feels like it".

MORVEN HOTEL

 



LOCALS VISITED THE
FREEDOM CAMP