See Harden Murrumburrah Silo Art, New South Wales, Australia

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The silo art by Heesco depicting the wheat industry in Murrumburrah. On the walls of the silos at the local former flour mill. Harden-Murrumburrah. Ned Ryan had a squatting run here by 1830. Around 1850 James Kennedy opened the Murrumburrah Inn. After gold was found nearby in 1856 James Kennedy petitioned the government to lay out a town which they did in 1858 named Murrumboola. A small Post Office opened in 1860 and a flourmill followed by a school in 1863 and the Catholic Church in 1868. After the railway reached the town in 1877 the name was changed to Murrumburrah. The northern part of the village was renamed Harden as was the railway station and it became the commercial centre. Today the historic town of Murrumburrah has a number of historic buildings including: the elegant Courthouse (1880), the 1868 Catholic Church completed in 1871 and extended in 1896; the Anglican church built from 1875; the Presbyterian Church ( 1915) now Uniting; the Australian Light Horse Memorial statues; the old Council Chambers (1883). In Harden look for: the former Commercial Bank (1905) now NAB; the Mechanics Institute (1909); and the Doncaster hotel (1906). Murrumburrah has silo art depicting the wheat growing of the district, a bronze to commemorate the First Light Horse Brigade of 1897 and a bronze of Bill the Bastard” a famous horse of World War One.

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