In 1828 Thomas Potter McQueen was granted 10,000 acres, and named the small township after George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.

[6] The town has a local rugby league team, the Aberdeen Tigers.

Osborn’s Buses runs a bus service between Aberdeen, Scone and Muswellbrook.

[7] Aberdeen is possibly best known for the former abattoirs in the town centre, which operated for well over 100 years, before the most recent owners - an American company called Conagra - decided to close down their New South Wales abattoirs and concentrate on their Queensland operations.

Hundreds of people were left without work,[8] and despite promises from both the New South Wales and Federal governments to encourage new businesses to open up in the area, beyond expansion of coal mining and associated industries, nothing of note eventuated.