Aramac Station

The district was first explored by William Landsborough in 1859 who named the Aramac Creek, a tributary of the Thomson River after a former pastoralist, Robert Ramsay MacKenzie.

Aramac Station was initially settled by John Rule and Dyson Lacey along the banks of the creek,[1] and they stocked the area with sheep.

The first manager of the station was Mr Alexander "Long" Gordon, who worked for Rule and Lacey.

[8] Roderick Travers had bought Aramac off Rule and Lacey some time prior to 1873 and added it to his other holding of Malvern Downs which combined held some 60,000 sheep and 10,000 cattle.

[10] By 1875 the station was owned by Messrs Travers and Gibson, who had a flock of approximately 20,000 sheep on the run.

[11] An additional 15,000 sheep were delivered to the station from Malvern Downs in 1876,[12] along with 15 stud bulls that arrived later in the dry season.

[15] Messrs. Anderson and Nicoll of Manuka Station purchased 10,000 sheep from Aramac that were droved overland and delivered in 1879 with the stock looking remarkably well.