Photograph, ''Mokebilla" Station 1866

Historical information

Mokebilla Station. 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.
Charles Browning Hall was at the station for a short period in about 1840-41.
Horatio Wils purchased Lexington from C.B. Hall in 1842. To this he added the stations of Larose and Mokebilla.
Part of the property still remains along the Halls Gap Rd, by the bridge over the Mount William Creek.
Note that the spelling has changed over the years and it is currently known as Mokepilly.

Physical description

Looking across water to Homestead and outbuildings behind large Gum Trees.

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