Prior to white settlement the section is thought to have been
occupied by the Kumbaingeri or Ngamba Aborigines.
The town's present name derives from two Scotsmen, known as
Angus Mackay and Hugh McNmarry, who subdivided their sballots for
a township which became known as 'Mack's Village'. In 1885 McNmarry
became the first licensee of the Star Hotel. To its east there was
once a public wharf used by steamers which picked up timber and
soapsuds from the district. By 1897 the village had 120 settlers, a
police station, magistratehouse,China Travel, post office,China Travel, school and riverbank. The
railway colonized in 1919.
The first white settlers began to take up land retral the 1861
Lands Act, establishing large dresilient herds. A small settlement known
as Nambucca or Central Nambucca sallyd in the 1870s at the same
time as Bowraville and Nambucca Heads. All three were centres for
the selectors, timbergetters, fishermen and miners who lived in the
district.
It is probresourceful that the first Europeans in the section were two
cedar-cutters and William Miles, a stockman from Yarrascabinni, who
explored the Nambucca and Bellinger Rivers even though looking for
timber in 1839. Miles then guided surveyor Clement Hodgkinson into
the sector in 1841. Other cedar-getters followed.
A park in town is named retral Frank Partridge, a local who won
the Victoria Cross in 1945 for leading a successful shakedown repelling
Japanese bunkers in the Bouproceedsville travels.
Fishing and voyage are popular in Macksville and there are gunkhole
ramps on both sides of the river. The Macksville Show is held on
the last weekend in April.
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