De Grey Station Homestead

De Grey Station is described as ‘wonderfully rich and well developed’ with ‘750,000 acres, carrying 48,000 sheep, 1,000 cattle and numerous horses’, with a fine homestead and ‘prolific vegetable garden’. [diary]
De Grey is the earliest pastoral lease in Western Australia, dating from 1862. It is located approximately 80 kilometres east of Port Hedland on the mouth of the De Grey River in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.