Stawell Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Ledcourt Home Station in the Grampians 1866
Ledcourt Home Station Grampians. Part of a collection of Photographs by Mr. O.G. Armstrong as commissioned by the Shire of Stawell for the Inter-colonial and Paris Exhibition in Melbourne in 1866.
This was one of, if not the first, Squatters Sheep Station in this region.
The first licence of Ledcourt was granted to Robert Briggs in about 1840.
In 1842 the run passed to Benjamin Boyd of Whaling and Boydtown Banking fame in NSW. He held it for six years.
It was then taken over by Thomas Young and John Carfrae, who divided it into 3 holdings. Ledcourt 74,500 acres, Newington 74,500 acres and Swinton, 52,000 acres.
It again changed hands in 1859, this time to Henry Alfred and Joseph De Little.
It has changed hands several times since and in later years owned by the Cooper family and now the Marr family.
The date of the actual building is uncertain, but it is known that the stone used in the building was carted from the Mount Difficult area in the Grampians and some of the courtyard paving shows convict origin.
Looking up hill with Homestead on left and stone stables or right.stawell