Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Aramac is a small town and locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland. In the 1850s, pastoralist and future Premier of Queensland Robert Ramsey Mackenzie travelled through the area, which was on the traditional lands of the Iningai. He blazed a tree with the inscription ‘R R Mac’, which was later corrupted into the name of the town.
In 1867 an employee of Aramac Station, John William Kingston, opened a bark-hut store at an outlying point on the Aramac Creek. Enlarged two years later to include a hotel (Kingston’s Bazaar), Kingston’s settlement was declared a town site in 1869 and surveyed as a town in 1875. It was the region’s first town, and the centre of the first local-government division.
Recollections of an 1878 visit to Aramac were published in the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin in 1933, describing the township as consisting of “neat weatherboard structures, painted, and comprising