[2] British colonisation began in 1840 when Nicholas McCann, Henry Loughnan and Lewis Lynch arrived in the region to set up a sheep station they named Greenhill.

They encountered a region that was well populated with Aboriginal people who had constructed many fishing weirs along the creeks in the area.

McCann told the approximately 75 native people who approached them, to leave and hostilities began soon afterwards.

Visiting in May 1841, George Augustus Robinson, the chief Protector of Aborigines in the region, found that the Omegarrerer had become extinct.

McCann and his partners abandoned Greenhill around the same time and in December 1841, James Ritchie occupied the vacant land and established a cattle station.