Harry Sargent acquired the property in 1923 with the intention of growing cotton but eventually turned to tin mining and cattle.
After the war times were tough again and after Sargent died most of the family drifted away from the property leaving his daughter Winnie with Stapleton.
[1] La Belle Station, a 610-square-kilometre (236 sq mi) outstation of Stapleton, was sold off by the Townsends in 2001 after being developed into a major breeding and finishing property.
[5] Henry Townsed was experimenting with his herd in 2012 by importing Nguni embryos from Africa to cross with the shorthorns in a bid to increase tenderness in the meat.
[6] In 2013 approximately 5,000 hectares (12,355 acres) of grazing land at the property was burnt out by a bushfire that started as a result of a flare used during a Defence Force exercise at the nearby Delamere Air Weapons Range.