[1] Established some time prior to 1906 by the Buchanan and Gordon Brothers, the property experienced many difficulties including the spearing of cattle and isolation of the area.
[2] The family business, Quilty and Sons, acquired the property in 1917[3] from Messrs, Mather, Ross, Manning and Ralston[4] for £34,000.
[8] The series of paintings by Indigenous Australian artist Rover Thomas called Bedford Downs Killings depicts these events.
[9] Following the death of Patrick Quilty in 1938,[10] the family retained possession of Bedford Downs and also acquired neighbouring Springvale Station from W. J. McAdam in 1948.
[11] Sterling Buntine acquired the property in the early 2000s then sold it in 2011 to the Paraway Pastoral Company which is owned by the Macquarie Bank.