Etadunna Station

Gossling and E. Homann, Brother Johann Ernst Jacob and lay-helper Hermann Heinrich Vogelsang, established Bethesda Mission at Lake Killalpaninna, which was extended to include two outstations, Kopperamanna, on the shore of Lake Kopperamanna, and Etadunna nearly twenty kilometres to the east of Bethesda.

[2] In 1885 a shearing shed was built at Etadunna and five years later an artesian bore was sunk at Kopperamanna and the mission was able to collect fees from passing drovers, adding to the missionaries' income which came mainly from donations and the sale of wool.

[2] During the 1897 season more than 28,000 sheep were shorn at the Etadunna shed which had sixteen stands, eight for native shearers and eight for the whites.

[2] During the time of the First World War, life began to turn as there was much distrust and so the mission was closed.

[2] Eric Oldfield, whose family were by now well established in the area, bought up the lease of 6,216 square kilometres (2,400 sq mi) now called Etadunna Station, in 1945.