Swan Hill

Swan Hill is a city in the northwest of Victoria, Australia on the Murray Valley Highway and on the south bank of the Murray River, downstream from the intersection of the Loddon River. At the 2016 enumeration, Swan Hill had a populace of 10,905. In the Dreamtime, Totyerguil from the region currently known as Swan Hill came up short on lances while pursuing Otchtout the cod. This pursuit is a piece of the folklore of the formation of the Murray River.

In view of proof from Coobool Creek and Kow Swamp, it creates the impression that Aboriginal individuals have lived in the region for the last 13,000– 9,000 years. The region is occupied by the Wemba-Wemba and Wati-Wati individuals. Swan Hill was designated "Matakupaat" or "place of the Platypus" by the Wemba individuals. The territory was given its current name by traveler Thomas Mitchell, while outdoors next to a slope on 21 June 1836.

In 1883 the first of a few red block water towers were worked to supply the developing town with water. Water was drawn out of the stream and into the highest point of the pinnacle by a wood-let go steam motor, and afterward streamed by inclination toward encompassing organizations and private living arrangements. A significant number of these towers can in any case be seen around town. The railroad from Bendigo was stretched out from Kerang to Swan Hill station in May 1890, being reached out to Piangil in 1915.