Like most towns in the Mallee (both in Victoria and South Australia) Lameroo came into existence in the early 1900s.
No one knows what the town's name means. The name is an Aboriginal word of unknown meaning although some people believe it had rude or objectionable connotations. How the town got the name Lameroo is well-known because in 1932 J. McL. Johnston, an inspector in the Post and Telegraph Service wrote: "I was at a farmer's house where Lameroo now is, one evening in 1904 ... the farmer (Mr. Byrne) asked me to stay there, as there was a meeting that night to name the place. I attended a fairly large meeting. The settlers could not agree on a name and finally appealed to me, whereupon I suggested Lameroo, which was adopted with only one dissentient. I do not know the meaning of the word. I suggested it because its euphony pleased me and I had so named a little bay in the Northern Territory between the Darwin Hospital and Gaol.'
Today Lameroo is surrounded by mixed farming with wool and wheat dominating.
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