Three Moon Silos

This wonderful silo depicts Joel Fergie’s and Travis Vinson’s version of the legend of the naming of the Three Moon. It depicts an aboriginal elder sharing dreamtime stories and of times gone by with his granddaughter. It tells the story of the legends of the naming of Three Moon.

Which includes a swagman, Aboriginal stockman or a Chinese station cook, that were boiling their billy on the banks of the creek and noticed three moon’s – one in the sky, one reflecting on the creek and one reflecting in his billy.

There is another story also of how the name came about, involving aboriginals that were given the job of washing the sheep at a local property along the river bank around 1887. The way it was communicated to the aboriginals who wanted to come back to work was to return to the same location on the riverbend when three moon’s had passed away, this location from then on was called Three Moon.