White Rocks Reserve, west of the town centre, is the small piece of broken ground where the 1915 picnic train shooting took place. It is now a quiet park with a memorial plaque and a few information boards, and is almost completely overlooked by visitors.
The site is worth the short drive out for the story alone. The reserve itself is unremarkable; it is the historical weight that makes it interesting.
A story
On New Year's Day 1915 two former cameleers, flying a homemade Turkish flag, opened fire on a picnic train carrying Broken Hill families to the annual Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows picnic at Silverton. Four passengers were killed and the gunmen were both shot dead by police a few hours later. It was the only attack on Australian soil during the First World War and remains one of the strangest incidents in the country's history.