The Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation was established in 1992 after much hard work by local Elders and the community. It was originally the name of one of many Missions established in Victoria in the late 1800’s.

The word Ramahyuck is composed of the biblical word "Ramah" meaning the Home of Samual and the Gunai [Kurnai] "Yuck" meaning Mother or Own. The original Ramahyuck was an Aboriginal Mission established by Reverend Freidreich Hagenauer, a Movarian missionary who had previously worked at the Ebeneezer Mission in Western Australia.

Reverend Hagenauer's initial application for land at Maffra was rejected after strong resistance from local settlers. In 1883 an application to the Central Board for the protection of Aborigines, for 2,356 acres of land on the shores of Lake Wellington, near the mouth of the Avon River, was approved, and Ramahyuck Mission was established.

Ramahyuck Mission housed many of the Brayakooloong and Tatungooloong clans of the Gunai[Kurnai] Tribe. Noongar women from southern, Western Australia, were brought to Ramahyuck as brides for the men.

Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corperation was established by the late Mr. Noel Yarram, and registered on the 12th May 1992

In 2008 we commemorated the history of Ramahyuck and the work of its founder members by erecting a History Wall in the foyer of our clinic at Sale.