Dr John Dunmore Lang suggested that Basin Pocket or Booval might have been a better site for the main settlement.

[4] A ferry service between Basin Pocket and North Ipswich was established by William Isaac Lawrence sometime after his family settled there in the 1860s.

[5] Basin Pocket Primitive Methodist Church opened on Sunday 8 December 1867.

On Tuesday 19 December 1867 (the public holiday for Separation Day), a tea meeting was held for 200 people to celebrate the opening of the church.

[9][10] St Philomene's Catholic Church was dedicated on 2 June 1940 by Archbishop James Duhig.