Between
1842 and 1852 the site functioned as the headquarters of the Native Police Corps raised by Henry Edmund Dana.
In 1853 ownership of the place passed to the Victorian Police and it became the Police Paddocks and Horse Stud Depot
of the Victoria Police. Horses were bred, trained, broken and spelled on the site, until 1931. Horses from other State
Govenment instrumentalities were also kept on the site, such as the Victorian Railways.
From 1879 to 1931 the site was home to a succession of Queensland
Aboriginal trackers, initially brought to Victoria to assist in the search for the notorious Kelly Gang in 1879.
All the buildings and structures (nineteenth and twentieth century) standing on the site in 1962 were demolished in that
year due to safety concerns prior to the Scout Jamboree held 1964-65
