[5] Historian Geoff Manning found that the town was located on a property claimed by the Mount Remarkable Mining Company and in the 1850s subdivided it into 250 sections of 80 acres (32 ha).

This was in accord with Cockburn's findings, but Manning was convinced that A. L. Elder, a prominent director of the company and a proud Scotsman, named it for Melrose in Roxburghshire.

According to the Virtual War Memorial for Australia, the opening of the cemetery is referenced by local newspapers.

This includes the South Australian Register's account of a whooping cough epidemic creating several new graves mere months after the cemetery's opening in 1863.

Almost a decade later, the South Australian Register again referred to Melrose Cemetery as being "new", as well as a "regular resort for pigs to go about rooting in", suggesting that the council take better care of the grounds.

[21] As of 1974, there are records of the Ngaiawang Indigenous Tribe, also referred to as the Nukunu, being located east of Melrose and Mount Remarkable.

Furthermore, according to Tiechelmann and Schürmann's 1840 account of the tribe, the Nukunu also practiced both subincision and circumcision as male initiation rites.

Today, Melrose is the base for visitors to the Mount Remarkable National Park and a centre for the local farmers.

This is a race to the summit of Mt Remarkable, during which runners and walkers ascend over 600 metres (2,000 ft) along a 7.7 kilometres (4.8 mi) trail.

According to the Virtual War Memorial for Australia, almost 128 burials took place in Paradise Square until its closure in the 1850s and prior to the establishment of Melrose Cemetery.

The land the estate sits upon was originally named by the Nukunu people, an Indigenous Australian community native to the Melrose region.

Tourists can participate in wine tasting and several ecotourism activities, including but not limited to mountain biking across ridge top trials, camping with a view of the Willochra Plain, and 4WD tours.

Its size was compared with several contenders throughout NSW, Victoria and Western Australia using the American Forests formula.

[28][27] Old Emu Foot is not considered a tourist attraction as it resides on private property and isn't easily accessible for the general public.

It sits roughly 1.2 km from the Melrose Showgrounds in a sheep paddock owned by farmer David McCallum.