Kanyaka Station Homestead Ruins - Quorn
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Major restoration work to arrest the decay of the remains of the stone ruins was completed in December 1987. Included in the refurbishing project were the homestead, various outhouses, shearing sheds and shearers' quarters.
Pastoralist Hugh Proby, the third son of a British Earl, established the Kanyaka run on 1 July 1851. Mr Proby died while crossing the flooded Willochra Creek the following year.
The property was then leased to Mr AWT Grant and Mr John Randall Phillips in 1853. In 1867, Mr Phillips and two partners were granted a pastoral lease, which was taken over by Alexander Thorold, Phillip Butler and William Milne in 1876.
From 1888 the property changed owners five times and it is believed the homestead was last inhabited in 1907.
The property was finally bought by the Hilder family in 1927 and was split into three sections, two of which were sold in 1976.