[3] In March 1855 reports began to appear in the colonial press of a "new gold-field at Mount Blackwood", considered to be an "ample field for profitable employment".

[5] A Post Office opened at Mount Blackwood in September 1855 (in a building known today as 'Blackwood House')[6] The prospectors at the new goldfield initially searched for alluvial gold, panning the creeks and sluicing the stream-banks and hillsides.

In 1857 John Dickson established the first quartz crushing plant at Mount Blackwood, an enterprise which eventually led to him losing "most of his capital".

The community had a mechanics' institute, a court house, Roman Catholic, Anglican and Wesleyan churches, Rechabites and Oddfellows' lodges and a State school at Golden Point.

[6] In February 1926 an article describing a trip to "the picturesque old township of Blackwood" claimed that "its mineral springs, mountain grandeur, and picnicking grounds are becoming immensely popular".

[14] The nearby Mount Blackwood is an extinct volcano with a prominent scoria dome built on lava flows extending eight kilometres to the south.

The summit, with several communication towers, is a public reserve accessible from a gate on Lohs Lane, off Mount Blackwood Road.

The tramway extends about 800 metres along a creek and features “well preserved impressions of foundation timbers, a short siding and a rock-cut ledge to accommodate the log line”.