The property was founded at the foot of Mount Welcome by John and Emma Withnell on the banks of the Harding River next to a freshwater pool called leramargadu.
[1][2][3] A homestead for the 30,000-acre (12,141 ha) property was quickly constructed, a single room house made from stone, mud bats and the remains of their cargo with a spinifex roof.
It is a single storey, timber framed, corrugated iron building with barrel vaulted roofs and was built on the same site as the original homestead.
[2] The state government threatened to forfeit the lease held by the Ieramugadu group, an Indigenous organisation, in 2006 after the property had been inspected and found to have been over-stocked, had poor fencing and inadequate watering points.
[11] In 2009 up to 20 Aboriginal squatters were to be evicted[clarification needed] from the heritage listed homestead and have their pet dogs destroyed after the building was condemned that had existed in Roebourne since 1864.