Wonnangatta Station

Today the area is part of the Alpine National Park, and is only accessible by four-wheel drive vehicle, dirt bike, horse or foot.

The station remains a popular off-road destination and has numerous facilities for campers, including long drop toilets and concrete fire pits.

Smith’s common law wife Ellen or "Nancy"[3] and her son Harry joined him and a homestead was built near the junction of the Wonnangatta River and Conglomerate Creek.

[4] Some time later Ellen died in childbirth,[5] and soon after Smith sold out to William Bryce before eventually returning to the United States.

As the children grew up they moved away and after Mrs Bryce’s death the property was sold to Mansfield owners in 1916, who installed a manager to run the station.