Brookdale
(Runs 190, 211 and 287)

When Deane of Easedale Nook sold the greater part of his country to Hopkins and Anson in 1872, they built a new homestead on the Kowai and named the station Brookdale.

Richard Northy Hopkins was the managing partner. Thomas Anson lived at Mt. Torlesse, his other station.

In April, 1874, Hopkins and Anson sold Brookdale to Dugald Matheson, from whom the Loan and Mercantile took it in 1882. The Loan and Mercantile sold it to John Milliken, the father of the present owners, in 1901.

John" Milliken was a farmer from Northern Ireland. He brought money out with him and did well carting wool for the stations on the West Coast Road. He died in 1920, since when his sons have managed Brookdale for the trustees.

While the company owned Brookdale they worked it from Mt. Torlesse.

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The present owners of the station spell its name Brooksdale (with an 's') but I have used the older spelling.