Aramac Station

Aramac Station was a pastoral lease that has operated both as a cattle station and a sheep station. It is located about 83 kilometres (52 mi) south east of Muttaburra and 162 kilometres (101 mi) north west of Alpha near the town of Aramac in Queensland.

The district was first explored by William Landsborough in 1859 who named the Aramac Creek, a tributary of the Thomson River after a former pastoralist, Robert Ramsay MacKenzie. The station, in turn, takes its name from the creek.

The station was established in 1863, shortly after Bowen Downs Station in 1862. Aramac Station was initially settled by John Rule and Dyson Lacey along the banks of the creek, and they stocked the area with sheep. The early part of the year and several waterholes failed causing other pastoralists in the area to move on. When the rains came in June the creek flooded and the homestead was found to be too close to the creek and had to be moved to higher ground. Lacey was later speared along with another of the station shepherds by Aborigines.

The first manager of the station was Mr Gordon, who worked for Rule and Lacey. One of the many experiences he had at the station was a tribal war between the Aborigines on the area at a part of the property called Greyrock, where many were killed.

Originally occupying an area of approximately 850 square miles (544,000 acres), the station is made up of about two thirds open and grazing country and about one third described as desert country.

In 1867 an employee of Aramac, John Kingston, started a trading post at an outlying point of the creek that later became the town of Aramac.

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