It used to be the largest port along the Darling River when it was built in the 1850s, but what you see today is only a replica of the original 1850s-built wharf. Today, as the Darling dries up, this replica only remains a museum piece.
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One of the earliest oil-fuelled stationary engines that have ever been built. It was originally used for the Sydney Power House in the 1930s, but later generated electricity for Coffs Harbour's Allowrie Butter Factory in the 1940s. After 1949, the engine was moved to a property in Narromine, a town 40 km west of Dubbo and now has been brought to Bourke.
A small art gallery established in 2006 with a lot of Outback-inspired pastel artworks, particularly of the Darling River.
See some excellent preserve Indigenous petroglyphs in this national park. It's about 30 minutes south-southwest along the B87 Kidman Way which is sealed, but all of the park's roads are poorly maintained dirt roads.