The spring was discovered and the name recorded by explorer George Fletcher Moore in 1836.

The area was settled in the 1840s and one of the first settlers, J Scully, named his property Bolgart.

[2] The name of the town is Aboriginal in origin and means place of water.

The town also has a small agricultural museum housing a restored early twentieth century Marshall oil-fired tractor.

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