Mount Poole Station

The first Europeans to venture into the area was the expedition led by Captain Charles Sturt, who arrived at the height of summer during a drought in 1845.

[1] The tree was marked with Poole's initials and Sturt had his men erect a stone cairn on a nearby rise.

[3] In 1908 the property was owned by the cattle baron Sidney Kidman, at this time it occupied an area of approximately 700 square kilometres (270 sq mi).

[4] The station was closed in 1929 with only a few men left as care-takers following an intense drought.

The few sheep remaining were being shorn in the paddocks as they were to weak to make it to the shearing shed.