[1] Llewellyn is often alternatively referred to as Stony Creek, a small tributary of the South Esk.

[2] Stony Creek was mentioned in colonial times in reference to the eponymous Tasmanian Aboriginal tribe (the Tyerrernotepanner clan) that still bears this name.

[3] Llewellyn first appears in early newspapers in 1845 as both being surveyed as a township and then also as a site of a murder.

[4][5] A hotel was opened in Llewellyn in 1873 by a publican from Campbell Town and by 1886 a siding was created, with a trestle bridge over Stony Creek, but, by this time, the inn was decreasingly patronised.

In this year it was recorded that the town had only the school as a public building, with the post office being contiguous with a private residence.