Dunmarra these days is little more than a roadhouse providing fuel and other services to travellers. However it does have an interesting story behind it.
The settlement supposedly takes its name from the Overland Telegraph linesman, Dan O’Mara, who disappeared in the area. Drover Noel Healy established a cattle station here in the 1930’s and found O’Mara’s skeleton in the bush. The local Aboriginal peoples’ attempts to say his name sounded like “Dunmarra”, and that was the name Healey gave to his station.
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