[3] It was selected by Ernest Favenc who had joined an expedition to the area to claim new pastoral lands for himself and his partner, Mr Brodie.
[6] By 1883 Ernest Favenc sold his quarter share of the property, now stocked with 2000 head of cattle, to Brodie and De Salis.
The drought of the early 1900s depleted the herd and in 1904 the owner completed the sale of what were left, about 3000 head and returned to Oxfordshire in England for the first time in 25 years.
[10][11] William Naughton acquired the property at some time after 1918 when he was overlanding small herds to butchers in Cloncurry.
[15] By 1932 Naughton's sons, Tom and Frank were running Cresswell while their father concentrated on his other pastoral interests.
[16] Currently Cresswell Downs is owned by the Paraway Pastoral Company and run in conjunction with Walhallow Station.