Majors Creek is a small village in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia.

[6] The area now known as Majors Creek lies on the traditional lands of Walbanga people, a group of Yuin.

[7] Probably due to reasons such as finding a viable means of sustenance, most of the surviving Aborigines living in the goldfields around Braidwood, migrated toward the coast—also Walbanga country—in the later years of the 19th-century.

[9] Elrington had a 29-year military career, including service in the Peninsula War, before selling his commission, in 1826, and migrating to Australia, in 1827, and taking up a grant of land.

Majors Creek was not well suited to gold dredge mining, which occurred at other nearby goldfields, such as Jembaicumbene and Araluen, in the early years of the 20th century.

[11] The bushranger Ben Hall and his gang made a surprise attack on the Araluen gold escort on 13 March 1865, as it travelled up the old mountain road, just outside Majors Creek.

[17] The old school building, dating from 1889, lies in a part of Majors Creek that was originally set aside as a small private town, known as Inkley.

[18][19] In the 1870s, an Italian-born stonemason, Peter Rusconi, built the stone parts of the bridge over Major’s Creek (the one on the main road, on the way into the town from Braidwood) and St Stephen’s Anglican Church.