 For over 26,000 years, the Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung and Yorta Yorta people had made the area around Lockington their home.Prior to early settlement, these groups were the primary custodians of the land, maintaining it whilst also practising their culture upon it.The first trace of European settlement can be traced back to the 1840s when it was owned by squatters under lease-hold tenure.