Major Thomas Mitchell on his second expedition down the Darling River to Laidley Ponds (current day Menindee) passed through the Tilpa district
On 19th June 1835 Major Thomas Mitchell made Camp 10 and a lay day at what the locals now call 'Seven Mile Point' on present day Buckanbe Station. Mitchell remarked in his diary "around the camp the party found the grass pulled up and piled in hay-ricks extending for miles, evidently ' for some purpose connected with the allurement of birds and animals'.
Below Tilpa they found 'permanent huts on both banks, the first of the kind I had seen, large enough to contain a family of 15 person. They were semi-circular and constructed of branches of trees, well thatched with straw, forming altogether a covering of a foot in thickness'. The people here were evidently more 'rational beings' and probably of more peaceful and settled habits"