[3] Alexander Forrest, the Western Australian explorer and surveyor, began his historic 1879 expedition from De Grey River Station, leaving on 25 February 1879 and "receiving much kind assistance from Mr Anderson" before travelling with his party overland to Condon.
The owners had acquired an additional area from a neighbouring lease that had been abandoned by Messrs Padbury and Co when the price of wool was quite low.
[5] At this time the property was divided into 16 paddocks separated by about 200 miles (322 km) of six-wire sheep-proof fencing and all with water tanks supplied by the De Grey River.
[8] The Rubin family bought the lease on the property in 1912 for A£100,000[9] with 75,000 sheep and provided the wool for the uniforms of the British Expeditionary Force in 1914.
The station was visited by MacRobertson's party twice during the Round Australia Expedition in 1928, once on the way to Port Hedland and then on the journey to Broome.